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: one that makes a tour for pleasure or culture
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tourist
adjective or adverb
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Examples of tourist in a Sentence
The museums attract a lot of tourists.
In the summer the town is filled with tourists.
The tourists defeated the home side.
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As many as eight tornadoes, with three each in Kansas and Oklahoma and two in Colorado, dotted the nation by Sunday at midnight (and invited twister tourists to tornado alley).
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Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
If convicted Grier, like the four other Americans, faces a mandatory prison sentence in the territory, which two years ago implemented tough gun-laws to curb a violent crime wave and opted to hold tourists to the same standard as locals.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024
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Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
If convicted Grier, like the four other Americans, faces a mandatory prison sentence in the territory, which two years ago implemented tough gun-laws to curb a violent crime wave and opted to hold tourists to the same standard as locals.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for tourist
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“Tourist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tourist. Accessed 23 May. 2024.
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