What is "sightseeing"

Usage examples of "sightseeing".

Occasionally Eddie had glimpses of what had made Ade Bennett into the man he was and the visions were like a sightseeing trip to hell.

We spent the weekend spiritlessly sightseeing, assailed by unspoken anxieties.

The letter written by me a day or two ago, which will probably reach you along with this, informs you that we are all well at home, and it contains as much neighborhood gossip as Wifey was able to think of at the hour of my writing, along with considerable instruction about certain points in sightseeing.

Maybe a few hours of peaceful sightseeing in the Bluegrass country around Lexington.

Once they were in the lobby, Wendy went to a nearby travel agency to make inquiries about the Great Barrier Reef while Marissa waited in line to speak with the concierge concerning Brisbane sightseeing.

This Margaret Lazenby wishes to make a sightseeing trip, and she especially asked for you as her escort.

So far, paying for the wine while killing time in a small taverna, waiting for the sightseeing trip to begin, was his only contribution to the backdoor reconnaissance of the villa.

The only sightseeing was in Commons, which meant a con­stant easy flow of traffic along the road.

Come let me show you around," she said and led the pouting and surly — and detumescing — Bill away for a sightseeing tour.

They went to the roof to take an air taxi for sightseeing, instead of going down to the streets.

He made vague sightseeing tours of the city: a motor-boat trip along the Chao Phraya and the market canals, a look at the Monastery of the Dawn and the Emerald Buddha in the Wat Phra Keo, doing the rounds, taking his time, enjoying himself while I had to sit with the AO Jupiters focused at a hundred yards and one foot over the clutch, one hand on the starter switch, the gear already in, one eye on the mirror so that I didn't smash someone up if I had to take two seconds to get out of a parking gap it had taken twenty minutes to find.

That wind — the Gregale, the sailing directions called it — did not allow Hornblower any leisure at present for sightseeing.

That wind - the Gregale, the sailing directions called it - did not allow Hornblower any leisure at present for sightseeing.

Their widespread use and illumination on the island surely landmarked Ireland for sightseeing aliens, he believed.

My knowledge of military architecture came from my upbringing in the Citadel and some casual sightseeing among the fortifications of Thrax, and what I knew—.