How to Use grand tour in a Sentence

grand tour

noun

• They offered to give us a grand tour of their new house.
• These are anxious times for the grand tours like the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
• This running shoe is, in essence, a grand tour coupe for one’s feet.
  — Brett Braley, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2022
• The Chicago Griswolds win a grand tour and head for the Old World to soak up culture.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Watch Mila take the grand tour and hang with the Jim Beam family.
  — Hallie Gould, Marie Claire, 20 Feb. 2014
• With the proceeds, Brown and her then-husband, the artist Manuel Neri, embarked on a grand tour of Europe.
  — Peter Plagens, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
• Nearby is Saint Theo's, which serves up a grand tour of Italy — and has quickly become a hotspot for the style set.
  — Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2022
• Lizzo was given a grand tour of the Library of Congress' flute vault – the largest such collection in the world – where it has been kept in the vault for decades.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
• Still, there was an opportunity to be had for a grand tour.
  — James Hill, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
• The visit was short; Uranus was one stop on the mission’s grand tour of the solar system, and the probe made its observations while on the move.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022
• This week brings the third installment in our grand tour of tortillerías in San Antonio with a focus on downtown and the South Side.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2021
• Yet Molly, determined to get married and amused by his move, follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
• If the Night King takes off on a grand tour, the entire continent will be facing a zombie apocalypse overnight.
  — Chanel Vargas, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Sep. 2017
• At Songbyrd, this slow-starting but ever-building epic ended the main set with a grand tour of Kim’s guitar technique.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
• Its grand tour came to an end on Oct. 4 but not before dazzling meteorologists with more twists and turns.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• That choice made Voyager 1 veer off its grand tour of the outer planets and head up and away from the orbital plane of our solar system, putting in on course for interstellar space.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2020
• In cycling, World Tour riders usually have at least 3 different bikes for a grand tour — a normal bike, at least one TT bike, and a climbing bike.
  — Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2021
• The discussion in Rivers’ living room was a far different scene than the grand tour the Magic took their targets, including Tim Duncan, on in 2000.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2019
• For the emperor’s third visit in 128, Hadrian was accompanied on his grand tour by his lover, Antinous, then in his late teens, and renowned for his beauty.
  — History Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
• Their technical customer care representative Barb met us and gave us the grand tour.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 22 June 2023
• Netflix made Spacey its unofficial spokesman, taking him on a prelaunch grand tour to declare that streaming was the future of television.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• The film’s first series of interviews were conducted in 2019 when Gibney toured Wimbledon with Becker and gave the filmmaker a grand tour.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
• In Europe, customers who pick up their vehicles are encouraged to drive them on a grand tour, ending at one of several ports where it will be shipped back to their hometown dealership.
  — Kyle Stock, Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Exclusive to this year, the calendar also features an illustration of the Voyager mission's grand tour!
  — Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2020
• Following the royal audience, Banks took Mai on a grand tour of the estates of various noblemen and the salons of his intellectual friends.
  — Hampton Sides, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2021
• Second, the ’Vette will lose its versatility as a multiday grand touring sports car, owing to its hatchback design.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• Michel de Montaigne, arriving there on his grand tour in 1580, described Ippolito’s water organ with its toothed barrel arranging the melody.
  — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
• Even so, Adams is aggressively fundraising for this nonelection, with a grand tour of New York City’s richest, most wonderful, and sometimes most awful people.
  — Choire Sicha, Curbed, 21 Sep. 2021
• The infrastructure of the encyclopedic museum is built on the grand tour of the 1800s and literally extracting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2021
• Florida’s first all-women honor flight sets off Tuesday for Washington D.C., where over 100 veterans will be treated to a grand tour of the nation’s capital.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 31 May 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024