How to Use holidaymaker in a Sentence

holidaymaker

noun

• But as the globe shuts down because of covid-19 and holidaymakers stay at home, the land of smiles feels glum.
  — The Economist, 2 Apr. 2020
• That amounts to around 95% of the holidaymakers who were originally booked to fly home that day.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• The region receives a quarter of the world’s holidaymakers (Europe’s share is still a half).
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• The holidaymaker who took the photo said the sign appeared in the past week, and a large group of Westerners were dining a tables outside.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 31 Jan. 2020
• Her exploitation is laid bare when a tour guide arrives at the witch camp with gawping holidaymakers in tow.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 29 May 2017
• Holidaymakers and business folk also need to be minded of the fact that they could still be stung by other mobile charges when travelling to the EU.
  — Kelly Fiveash, Ars Technica, 15 June 2017
• Many holidaymakers fled the storm Thursday night before the airport closed.
  — Fox News, 26 May 2018
• In some offices the temptation must be to get in early to grab the best places, like holidaymakers placing towels on the poolside chairs before breakfast.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• And so lawyers and claims-management firms moved to target their services at holidaymakers.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• Her plan could change how banks operate as well as raise costs for holidaymakers using their smartphones.
  — Bloomberg.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• It is also hoped that by attracting holidaymakers to new areas, the country could reduce the strain on tourist hotspots like Venice, which is swamped during peak season.
  — Caroline McGuire, Fox News, 17 May 2017
• The area has become a magnet for middle class holidaymakers and second home owners.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2019
• The resort began to lure high-rolling holidaymakers and the artists who helped empty their wallets in the 1930s, when Nevada became the first state to legalise gambling and liberalise divorce laws.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• The corporate collapse has the potential to spark chaotic scenes around the world, with holidaymakers stuck in hotels that have not been paid in locations as far afield as Goa, Gambia and Greece.
  — NBC News, 23 Sep. 2019
• The thinking went that by stopping holidaymakers from snapping up new-builds, housing would become more affordable to people who live in St Ives all year round.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2019
• Many of these holidaymakers were traveling abroad for the first time, according to local business people working in the tourism sector.
  — Julie Zaugg, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
• From the 1970s, cheaper air travel meant that holidaymakers started to abandon the British seaside in favour of warmer, more obviously beautiful places like Spain and Greece.
  — 1843, 25 June 2019
• The pinch was felt immediately by British holidaymakers who will have suffered sticker shock upon buying an ouzo on the beach.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2017
• But the crisis has made Greece cheaper for holidaymakers, whose spending supports plenty of local jobs.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• The film depicts tourists relaxing before gunmen attack the hotel, and then shows the holidaymakers and hotel staff trying to escape.
  — Hilary Clarke, CNN, 10 July 2017
• And there are so many obstacles that a Saudi Arabia full of holidaymakers is as hard to envisage as a Saudi Arabia that’s no longer hooked on fossil fuels.
  — Bloomberg News, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2017
• But services were stopped to both destinations in 2015 after the bombing of a Russian airliner over the Sinai peninsula and the mass shooting of mostly British holidaymakers on a beach at Sousse.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• Earlier this year, a holidaymaker on a North Carolina beach captured drone footage of Civil War-era shipwreck.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 21 June 2018
• Get our daily newsletter An indoor Olympic-size swimming pool is a few steps from a lakeside slipway where holidaymakers may launch speedboats.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• The pinch was felt immediately by British holidaymakers, many of whom will have done a double take upon seeing their credit card statements on their return home.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2017
• Nothing too raunchy or risqué, but a little friendly fake flirtation with the holidaymakers is expected.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 Aug. 2023
• But it has been plagued by mounting complaints from its users—both hosts and holidaymakers alike—some of which were compiled in a particularly damaging report from The Bear Cave substack earlier this year.
  — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Damüls is popular with German and Dutch holidaymakers, who like its traditional wooden huts with kitsch interiors, though locals come here for the off-piste.
  — Sam Haddad, 1843, 26 Feb. 2020
• Officials refuse to be drawn on whether the smugglers are simply enthusiastic holidaymakers, or part of a bigger racket.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Plenty of holidaymakers are still drawn in by the strenuous charms of spelunking, white-water rafting and biking the Great Allegheny Passage, a 150-mile rail trail that almost grazes Fallingwater.
  — Stephen Heyman, New York Times, 27 July 2016

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024