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

Recent Examples on the Web 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 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 Her tour guide was a local expert who had discovered several ancient sites within the conservancy, including a burial complex. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024 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

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“Tour guide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tour%20guide. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

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