sightseeing

Example Sentences

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She’d booked her first trip to the Grand Canyon for the coming summer, and she wanted to walk without pain while sightseeing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Someone estimated costs at $1,000 per day per person — staying at 4- or 5-star hotels, using private transportation and avoiding lines for sightseeing.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

As the pair do some sightseeing, share meals and otherwise fill their days with prosaic acts, more than 30 minutes of screen time elapses in what amounts to stage-setting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

In 2024, a Takumi Enterprise sightseeing helicopter flying over Mount Aso made an emergency landing, injuring the three people on board.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

Her ideas always came after the sightseeing visits she took with her daughters to department stores to see the wonders of this new country.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez