[
UK
/kɹˈuːz/
]
[ US /ˈkɹuz/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹuz/ ]
VERB
-
sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing
We were cruising in the Caribbean -
drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure
She cruised the neighborhood in her new convertible -
look for a sexual partner in a public place
The men were cruising the park -
travel at a moderate speed
Please keep your seat belt fastened while the plane is reaching cruising altitude
NOUN
- an ocean trip taken for pleasure
How To Use cruise In A Sentence
- Tre is going to be on suntan lotion duty quite a lot on the cruise. The Sun
- Among profuse schools of trevallies and barracuda, huge tunas and a host of sharks cruise the sheer wall.
- Winfrey interviewed Cruise at his mountaintop home near Telluride, Colorado, surrounded by the snow-capped Rocky Mountains.
- We lob cruise missiles and I am not critical of that, but I think that has been the attitude - well they are not going to respond.
- The next day she said the landscape as they cruised along the River Rhine was very picturesque with little villages nestling in the hills.
- As usual with Saab, the design of the instruments and controls is almost perfect although the cruise control stalk is partly hidden from view.
- More than 2.5 million vacationers are expected to enjoy a cruise of less than seven days on some 1,500 sailings this year.
- From the river cruise the docklands look like docklands everywhere; tourists finally at rest, not quite bored, get brief glimpses into other lives, other spaces.
- Belle does some kind of abstruse Boswellising; after the first meal, having gauged the kind of jests that would pay here, I observed, ‘Boswell is Barred during this cruise.’ Vailima Letters
- The single engine, semi-displacement hull form with deep forefoot and a long deep keel actually more closely resembles Down East-style workboats and cruisers.
