What is "sightseer"

Usage examples of "sightseer".

The Melungeon crewmen continued to babble to one another at the clarity of the image even as Maginnes shooed them out to make room for another group of sightseers.

The flat black face of the cop on the passenger side seemed to track him through the chicken-wire mesh that covered the windows of all the cars from the jokertown precinct as it slid sharklike through the sightseers huddled in schools against the strangeness of the scene.

The cars were about half filled with miners and cattlemen, and a sprinkling of hunters and sightseers, and the boys and girls overheard a good deal of talk about steers and horses, mines and new discoveries, and about the outlook for hunting and fishing.

The massive legs were covered to the knees with inscriptions traced in Greek by sightseers: names, dates, a prayer, a certain Servius Suavis, a certain Eumenius who had been in that same place six centuries before me, a certain Panion who had visited Thebes just six months ago.

Vragax moved back and forth between their scattered little camps like sightseers at a bazaar, greeting fellow militants with much laughing and shouting and tossing about of weaponry.

Chimuera Huaca of the Moon that served as the passenger reception area, past the cargo receiving terminal, and finally slowed as it approached the more heavily safeguarded barrier that prevented casual sightseers from wandering out among the parked shuttles and aircraft.

Through the elaborate stone gateway, in company with a steady stream of morning sightseers, Monfalcone passed, and into the courtyard of the palace itself.

After him drifted other sightseers, and among them Monfalcone, who had turned his back upon the last of the Doges at the precise moment when his creature went out of the room, exactly as if he had eyes at the back of his head.

By far the majority were sightseers who had to stand off while the docking tugs and loading tenders went to work.

There were a number of children, too, dashing to and fro, and several well-meaning sightseers who, with the kindliest intentions, urged her to go to the rails and look over too.

In the noisy central plaza amid food stalls and small open shops, half a dozen empty busses were lined up, and groups of sightseers were strolling about, shepherded by guides.

Mostly they were Bajoran archeologists, although there was a handful of recently arrived Vulcan chronologists and a few assorted off-world theology groups—not to mention a constant trickle of the faithful, devout sightseers who came to pray and meditate hi the long shadow of B'hala's central bantaca.

Regular features of the time: neatly swept-up piles of glass, litter of stone and splinters of flint, smell of escaping gas, knots of sightseers waiting at the cordons where there are unexploded bombs.

But the Park's real claim to fame -- the presence that brought sightseers from all over the world -- was Marilyn Monroe, who was laid to rest in a bland concrete crypt distinguished only by the number of floral tributes it attracted.

As it was the lunch hour the morning services were over and comparatively few sightseers were doing the rounds of the famous monuments.