How to Use tour guide in a Sentence

tour guide

noun
  • At one point, a tour guide led a group of tourists through the area.
    Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
  • You’ll be picked up at arrivals by a tour guide, and transferred back to the airport after the trip.
    Melanie Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
  • My first job My first job post-college was working as a bike tour guide in Paris.
    Dale Arden Chong, ELLE, 15 Mar. 2023
  • In 2020, a Ukrainian boy lost an arm, and an Egyptian tour guide lost a leg in a shark attack.
    Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 8 June 2023
  • There’s an awkward pause, in which the tour guide surveys the room, as if in search of evidence to the contrary.
    Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • As the hot-pink stretch Hummer winds through the streets of Laurel, Miss., the tour guide inside points out notable homes.
    Beth Decarbo, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Go hunting for waterfalls, with a tour guide or on your own.
    Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Shout-out to the tour guide, who has to deliver his spiel to a group of women who could not be less interested.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The tour guide at Maison Louis Carré was wonderful, and very witty.
    Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Our tour guide recounts instances of people marrying their dog, their bike and more.
    Ryan Fish, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2023
  • As his music has travelled farther from home, Cench has often acted as a game tour guide to anyone new to the universe of British rap.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Another tour guide, a young congressional intern, pointed her charges to the small cadre of bored reporters pressed against the back wall of the foyer.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Katie Parla, a tour guide in Rome and cookbook author, says to seek out locals who specialize in a field that interests you.
    Natalie B. Compton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Years later, the story of the Mumbai tour guide asking for my card to show her daughter that women can do anything still empowers me.
    Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The 23-year-old Lithuanian served as our tour guide and driving coach on a series of dirt roads that crisscrossed Portugal’s rugged terrain near the Spanish border.
    Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Every hour our tour guide took a battered cardboard box from the front seat and paraded it down the aisle like a bass drum in a marching band, urging those dubious fruits upon us.
    Rita Dove, Bon Appétit, 8 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • In other sections, Nancy functions as a tour guide through Bushmiller’s mind, and some pages are simply given over to the best of Bushmiller’s influential strips.
    Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Meet the Expert Bruce Bell is a Toronto historian and tour guide offering group walking tours and private excursions to some of the city’s most famous sights.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Bernier, who grew up here in a family of French ancestry that’s been on the island since 1648, is the island’s main conservationist and its consummate tour guide.
    Ross Kenneth Urken, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
  • Isabel’s family is generally painted as crazy, tacky and weird, a punchline in their very way of existing, while Alex serves as the white tour guide into their world.
    Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Miu Wang, a tour guide, was recently on the second deck of a white-and-pink car ferry in Victoria Harbor that had been converted into a floating restaurant.
    Olivia Wang, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • An unforgettable four days Aside from meeting that tarantula—whom a tour guide introduced us to before our screams convinced him to put her away—the trip couldn’t have gone better.
    Carly Helfand, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Health authorities said a tour guide collapsed and died of heat stroke Sunday while giving a tour of the Summer Palace — a vast, 18th century imperial garden.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
  • Valle is a former Miami tour guide, so maintaining the history of Miami is important to him.
    Carlos Frías, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Additionally, since the early ‘80s, the Alaska Railroad has spearheaded a tour guide program with local school districts to prepare high school students for jobs in tourism.
    Jenna Kunze, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Pee-wee didn’t hate the adult world so much as ignore the responsibilities of it, and his child-like engagement with things helped present him as both a tour guide to this singular Hermaniverse and a co-conspirator with his younger viewers.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
  • But many Nara visitors likely won’t encounter it, local tour guide Atsuo Itsuji told me, as the breakfast is usually simply prepared at home.
    Megan Zhang, Saveur, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The other tour guide said that was because the two warring drug cartels, Sinaloa and Jalisco, often recruit or force local people to act as foot soldiers and prevent National Guard troopers from entering their towns.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • As if taking all of this in wasn’t enough, being there as a NASA engineer, walking the entire center by my grandfather’s side, with me as our tour guide, explaining each piece before us, was an unparalleled full-circle moment for me.
    Elio Morillo, Popular Science, 7 June 2023

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