Examples of tourist trap in a Sentence
The street market is a tourist trap that mostly sells cheap souvenirs.
That hotel is just a tourist trap.
Recent Examples on the Web
Perhaps those big, epoch-marking years are tourist traps of a kind.
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Big Wave Bay holds a special place in my heart for its intimate charm—a welcome departure from the tourist traps found down the road at nearby Shek-O Beach.
—Kissa Castañeda, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Such are the legendary tales weaving through this tourist trap and epicenter of the gambling industry.
—USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024
Just when they're getting used to being dead, the recently deceased Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) find their home invaded by nouveau riche boneheads who want to market the house as a haunted tourist trap.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
So the filmmakers left behind 44 hobbit holes, the Green Dragon Inn and dozens of other props, turning the farm into a proper tourist trap.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
There are no town squares, no restaurants, and no tourist traps.
—Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
In the anarchic, cutthroat, casually anachronistic fantasy world Jenkins builds—where Ed and his bitter first mate Izzy (Con O’Neill) dress in bikers’ leathers and the Republic of Pirates is a tourist trap—no pirate would get worked up over an anomaly as benign as two men kissing.
—TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
But, according to a new report from USA Today, that pink box represents one of the top 10 tourist traps on planet Earth.
—oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Big Wave Bay holds a special place in my heart for its intimate charm—a welcome departure from the tourist traps found down the road at nearby Shek-O Beach.
—Kissa Castañeda, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Such are the legendary tales weaving through this tourist trap and epicenter of the gambling industry.
—USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024
Just when they're getting used to being dead, the recently deceased Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) find their home invaded by nouveau riche boneheads who want to market the house as a haunted tourist trap.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
So the filmmakers left behind 44 hobbit holes, the Green Dragon Inn and dozens of other props, turning the farm into a proper tourist trap.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
There are no town squares, no restaurants, and no tourist traps.
—Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
In the anarchic, cutthroat, casually anachronistic fantasy world Jenkins builds—where Ed and his bitter first mate Izzy (Con O’Neill) dress in bikers’ leathers and the Republic of Pirates is a tourist trap—no pirate would get worked up over an anomaly as benign as two men kissing.
—TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
But, according to a new report from USA Today, that pink box represents one of the top 10 tourist traps on planet Earth.
—oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
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“Tourist trap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tourist%20trap. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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