excursion

How to use excursion in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for excursion.

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At least if the SUV is being used for things like carrying gear for an excursion or off-roading.

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Quick take

a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of excursion gathered in one view.

noun

a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"

noun

wandering from the main path of a journey

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for excursion.

noun

a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"

See also: jaunt, outing, junket, expedition, sashay

noun

wandering from the main path of a journey

Example sentences

At least if the SUV is being used for things like carrying gear for an excursion or off-roading.

An excursion to plead for patience on the part of the reader should only come when the beginning of the sentence is likely to irritate people.

I offered a $100 reward for a five city US excursion, originating in Japan, with the proviso "I use Delta.

Your comment would read better without the argumentative side-excursion in the second-last paragraph.

Not the presence of an excursion or parenthetical remark, but the presence of an annoying and meaningless excursion manufactured to make the author seem witty.

For example, for my most recent excursion, I couldn't stay the entire camp, so they asked me to run some sessions with local teachers instead, since I had so much experience volunteering to teach their kids.

I've been wondering when a government sponsored excursion into twitter astroturfing would come up...it is trivially easy to build a network of fake accounts and to have them followed by hundreds of thousands of fake accounts.

She ended up being the true victim, as I got my bike back and she didn't get her money.#3, eight years later: I had run to the library to pick up a book, only to find that my lock, which always lived in my bag, had been left in my daughter's bike trailer after a weekend excursion.