junket
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Ken Bensinger, a New York Times reporter who covers media and politics, wrote about this junket of Loomer’s.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
In March 2024, several dozen insurance agents from the U.S. took part in a three-day junket in and around Medellín, Colombia, where Regan lived and worked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
He tells reporters as much during a mini junket he organizes for himself over breakfast at the Ritz London, where Marty puts himself up despite having no way to pay for such luxurious accommodations.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
He recalled how once during a series of five-minute junket interviews, one journalist compared being an actor to being a liar and it sent Pearce into an existential tailspin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
A morning train brought Mayor Thompson back into the city from a political junket in Wyoming.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
![]()
And no rules at the Guardian, apparently, regarding outrageous boondoggles and ocean-going junkets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Allen would score interviews with major stars at press junkets and cut them into a weekly half-hour program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025
Press junkets and red carpet interviews for superhero movies have been condensed to five-minute timeslots and two-question interviews, respectively — and that’s if a journalist is lucky.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025
“At the first X Factor press junkets, journalists were saying, ‘Why are you here?
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
And all through the country joy returned with them; and there was happiness for the wives and mothers, and junkets in the taverns where the beautiful barmaids of Paimpol served out drink to the fishers.
From Great Sea Stories by Joseph Lewis French
Between tours she junketed on a Portuguese tramp steamer with a cargo of wild animals and a mad captain.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
Annually for 25 years he junketed to Washington to be greeted, photographed.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
Robert Lansing attended the Paris peace conference in 1919, Charles Evans Hughes junketed to London in 1924 with the American Bar Association and Frank Billings Kellogg went to Cuba for the 1928 Pan-American Conference.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
While Nasser junketed through Soviet Russia, his press grandly proclaimed that the German "loan," along with an earlier $175 million Soviet credit, would enable Egypt to fulfill its five-year plan in three years.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
Together they made trips to town or junketed over the country in search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
On a modern marketing budget, that would barely cover the junketing cast's travel and minibar expenses, but at the time, the advertising reach was, as The Times wrote in 1975, "a promotion man's dream."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2015
It is above all serious, and tries to stay away from the flim-flam of artworld tourism and junketing.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012
But even if all reporters were invulnerable to blandishment, the venerable practice of junketing would still be a sticky problem.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
Archdeacon Graham White sniffed, flatly announced that his Anglican Cathedral would under no circumstances be used to marry the junketing pair.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
On the edge of the highway, to the sound of rebecks, viols, and bagpipes, more than one pilgrim was holding a frying feast and junketing of bruinbier.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
Vocabulary lists containing junket
The Vocabulary.com Top 1000
Looking to grow your vocabulary? Check out this interactive, curated word list from our team of English language specialists at Vocabulary.com – one of over 17,000 lists we've built to help learners worldwide!
100 Words to Make You Sound Smart
Interested in learning more words like this one? Our team at Vocabulary.com has got you covered! You can review flashcards, quiz yourself, practice spelling, and more – and it's all completely free to use!
The Melting Pot: Food Words from Other Languages
Want to remember this word for good? Start your learning journey today with our library of interactive, themed word lists built by the experts at Vocabulary.com – we'll help you make the most of your study time!