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
  • The only caveat is that a permit and a tour guide are both required to visit.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2024
  • 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
  • Our tour guide went right to the front and got us our donuts without waiting more than a few minutes.
    Kate Loweth, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Pick up a driving tour guide at the visitor center on Main Street.
    Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 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
  • Consider her role as a tour guide named Suzanne in 1970’s Brewster McCloud.
    Beatrice Loayza, The Atlantic, 15 July 2024
  • The tour guide at Maison Louis Carré was wonderful, and very witty.
    Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2023
  • No one goes to Rome and has a fit because the tour guide delves into the cultural explanation for why all the statues have tiny wee-wees.
    Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2024
  • 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
  • One tour guide, who lives in Driggs, opted to sleep in his car the night before an early morning outing rather than wake up at 3 a.m. to pick up his clients in Jackson at 6 a.m.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 13 June 2024
  • 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
  • Despite the number of people, the one-way traffic and our tour guide's expertise still allowed for a feeling of privacy.
    Sari Hitchins, Parents, 23 May 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
  • But she was captivated by her conversations with Fatimah, a tour guide who drives the two of them around in her silver pickup truck.
    Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 30 June 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
  • Keep scrolling to refresh your closet before your next walking tour — after all, the last person a tour guide wants on one of is someone complaining about blisters.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Side note: At the tour’s halfway turnaround point, there is an option for the driver and passenger to switch places carefully while following the tour guide’s instructions.
    Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 14 July 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

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