EXCURSION in a Sentence
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32 example sentences for EXCURSION, such as:
1. Such an excursion could not be kept secret.
2. I thought you were for flying off on some excursion.
3. The weather was magnificent, and the excursion a treat.
4. Wuthering Heights was the goal of my proposed excursion.
5. But the point of an excursion is that you come home again.
2. I thought you were for flying off on some excursion.
3. The weather was magnificent, and the excursion a treat.
4. Wuthering Heights was the goal of my proposed excursion.
5. But the point of an excursion is that you come home again.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of EXCURSION
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excursion
n. wandering from the main path of a journey
n. a journey taken for pleasure
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1 The next day was as fine as its predecessor: it was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighbourhood.
2 And then, to my great relief, Mr. Henry Lynn summoned them to the other side of the room, to settle some point about the deferred excursion to Hay Common.
3 I thought you were for flying off on some excursion.
4 She gave a faithful account of her excursion and its consequences; and my master, though he cast more than one reproachful look at me, said nothing till she had concluded.
5 We deferred our excursion till the afternoon; a golden afternoon of August: every breath from the hills so full of life, that it seemed whoever respired it, though dying, might revive.
6 Wuthering Heights was the goal of my proposed excursion.
7 But her love was somehow only an excursion from her marriage with Clifford; the long, slow habit of intimacy, formed through years of suffering and patience.
8 But the point of an excursion is that you come home again.
9 Sir Henry had numerous papers to examine after breakfast, so that the time was propitious for my excursion.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
Context Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
10 It was an excursion of some miles across the moor to a place which is so dismal that it might have suggested the story.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
Context Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
11 Such an excursion could not be kept secret.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
12 Franz then related to his friend the history of his excursion to the Island of Monte Cristo and of his finding a party of smugglers there, and the two Corsican bandits with them.
13 Let us leave the banker driving his horses at their fullest speed, and follow Madame Danglars in her morning excursion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
Context Highlight In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
14 The weather was magnificent, and the excursion a treat.
15 When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como.
Example Sentence:
1 It was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighbourhood.
2 It was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighborhood.
3 NASA rang in 2019 in stellar style by celebrating a successful excursion to the most distant world ever explored - some billion miles beyond Pluto.