How to Use grand tour in a Sentence
grand tour
noun- They offered to give us a grand tour of their new house.
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These are anxious times for the grand tours like the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia.
—Jason Gay, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
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This running shoe is, in essence, a grand tour coupe for one’s feet.
—Brett Braley, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2022
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The Chicago Griswolds win a grand tour and head for the Old World to soak up culture.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
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Watch Mila take the grand tour and hang with the Jim Beam family.
—Hallie Gould, Marie Claire, 20 Feb. 2014
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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
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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
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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
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Still, there was an opportunity to be had for a grand tour.
—James Hill, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When the Clipper guard’s grand tour continued in July in Greece, the trip was as much about his vocation as vacation.
—Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Their technical customer care representative Barb met us and gave us the grand tour.
—Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 22 June 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Exclusive to this year, the calendar also features an illustration of the Voyager mission's grand tour!
—Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The infrastructure of the encyclopedic museum is built on the grand tour of the 1800s and literally extracting.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2021
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