How to Use touristy in a Sentence

touristy

adjective

• He's done the same touristy stuff in Cali as you and your squad.
  — Alison Caporimo, Seventeen, 18 May 2018
• The hub of the park is Bar Harbor, a touristy town with shops.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2019
• The place is touristy, but the crowds are there for good reason.
  — Alison Roman, Bon Appetit, 26 Apr. 2017
• Some are in trendy non-touristy locales, some sit in the heart of it all.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Aug. 2021
• My in-laws, on the other hand, live in a lake house in a touristy part of the country.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
• This touristy summer version of Estes Park wasn’t the Estes I was used to.
  — Chryss Cada, The Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2017
• Lazaro also owns a gift shop on touristy South Franklin Street in Juneau.
  — Jennifer Pemberton, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2022
• Yes, the strip is sometimes knocked as being too touristy.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2018
• This world may have held a touristy allure for me, but Emin was fully of it, and so were the Trump kids.
  — Michael Idov, Billboard, 17 July 2017
• Yet even on the most touristy of nights, a part of real Mexico broke through.
  — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
• My wife is the GM of a really busy, touristy restaurant.
  — The Cut, 10 Dec. 2017
• Pick up a souvenir sponge from one of the many touristy retailers.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• Not all clean and tidy and touristy, but charming and scenic nonetheless.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• An early intention was to make the new 49 Mile Scenic Route less touristy.
  — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• Get out of the touristy neighborhoods into some more off the beaten path.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2019
• For Kajioka and Rush, the distance from the touristy crowds of Waikiki was a feature, not a bug.
  — Naomi Tomky, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2019
• Its remoteness and a lack of touristy amenities keep prices low.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• The experience should be your own—no touristy places or crowds.
  — Kathryn Miles, Outside Online, 4 June 2019
• The area’s trendiness has grown, but fortunately, the touristy crowds tend to stay along busy Oxford Street to the south.
  — Brian Melton, star-telegram, 20 Apr. 2018
• On their most recent visit, the weather was chilly and rainy, but the friends went all over town doing touristy things.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 7 May 2021
• In Mexico, the turquoise waters and clear, smooth sand of the touristy Mayan Riviera turned into a brown mess.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2019
• Think lush countryside and 10 percent grades—without the touristy T-shirt shops of France.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 25 Mar. 2019
• Don't limit yourself to touristy Michigan Avenue and the Navy Pier.
  — Paul Brady, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2018
• Inviting with sugar-white sand, the small beach has a funkier vibe than the bigger beaches on the more touristy side of the island.
  — Melanie Refffes, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2019
• Yes, the Public Market is touristy as all get-out, but there are some fantastic food booths.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2022
• Many travelers go to crowded, touristy places — then complain about the crowds.
  — Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 1 Aug. 2017
• Many resorts, pastry shops and restaurants now have it on their menu, and not just in big touristy cities that cater to foreign tastes.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 24 May 2022
• Or get away from the crowds as quickly as possible and into the peaceful mountains that seem worlds away from the touristy stuff.
  — Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer, 1 June 2022
• This spring an informal camp of asylum-seekers grew in a plaza in a trendy, touristy neighborhood of the capital.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2023
• Gomez, 49, had worked nearly half his life at this casual, family-friendly restaurant located on a quiet side street a block and a half from the buzz of touristy Front Street, Lahaina’s main drag.
  — Lewis Abraham Leader, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024