tour guide
noun
: a person who takes people on trips through an area and explains the interesting details about it
Examples of tour guide in a Sentence
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The tour guide regaled my group with colorful anecdotes, including a fable about a mute merman who was caught in a fishing net and imprisoned in the castle before escaping back to sea.
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Kate Maxwell, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
Outside of his work, O'Connor had also been a bike tour guide, a ski patroller, a National Park Service climbing ranger, an ultramarathon, and a backcountry skier, according to the blog post.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 13 May 2024
As a tour guide lectures on Caravaggio’s David With the Head of Goliath, Tom Ripley drifts toward the painting.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
Lionel Richie serves as the de facto tour guide for this trip down memory lane, which fulfills its promise to make a better day (or at least 90-some-odd minutes) for you and me.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
Jacobsen said that the tour guide eventually left to allow Jacobsen, his children and a couple other people on the tour to move through the rooms on their own.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
My bobble-head tour guide has waged a legal battle against his trial and sentencing through much of the years since he was first condemned at the age of 18 in 1988.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 12 Mar. 2024
Valle is a former Miami tour guide, so maintaining the history of Miami is important to him.
—Carlos Frías, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
The New York Times traced much of that content to the work of Michael Yon, a former Green Beret who over the past three years has become the go-to tour guide for right-wing journalists, politicians and social-media influencers wanting to see the Darién Gap firsthand.
—Ken Bensinger Federico Rios, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Kate Maxwell, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
Outside of his work, O'Connor had also been a bike tour guide, a ski patroller, a National Park Service climbing ranger, an ultramarathon, and a backcountry skier, according to the blog post.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 13 May 2024
As a tour guide lectures on Caravaggio’s David With the Head of Goliath, Tom Ripley drifts toward the painting.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
Lionel Richie serves as the de facto tour guide for this trip down memory lane, which fulfills its promise to make a better day (or at least 90-some-odd minutes) for you and me.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
Jacobsen said that the tour guide eventually left to allow Jacobsen, his children and a couple other people on the tour to move through the rooms on their own.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
My bobble-head tour guide has waged a legal battle against his trial and sentencing through much of the years since he was first condemned at the age of 18 in 1988.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 12 Mar. 2024
Valle is a former Miami tour guide, so maintaining the history of Miami is important to him.
—Carlos Frías, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
The New York Times traced much of that content to the work of Michael Yon, a former Green Beret who over the past three years has become the go-to tour guide for right-wing journalists, politicians and social-media influencers wanting to see the Darién Gap firsthand.
—Ken Bensinger Federico Rios, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
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“Tour guide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tour%20guide. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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