How To Use Touristy In A Sentence
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We had another good touristy day today, visiting a few galleries, beaches and the like.
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It's blissfully untouristy, although a floating gelateria tootles up and down the shoreline.
Times, Sunday Times
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The coast is terribly touristy now.
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In this remote area is a spectacular land of lakes and mountains better known locally as a top ski and extreme sports destination, which has given it a good infrastructure for tourism indeed, some might go so far as to call it touristy, than as a land of great vines.
A Year of Wine
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Hong Kong harbour is beautiful and you can go on a junk boat and do all that touristy stuff, which we did.
The Sun
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But this weekend, while visiting New York, I had one touristy thing I desperately wanted to do.
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He reappears with a matatu (which in a more touristy place has the wonderful name of ‘tandala,’ as that is how much it costs without pre-barter), which is a mini minibus, basically a van with seats.
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We might have gotten away with it, if one of our number hadn't done the touristy thing and snapped a photo of a passing army vehicle.
Christianity Today
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Yet some reviewers panned what they called her touristy themes, garish colors, and the “hysteria” of the giant crosses.
Portrait of An Artist
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Most visitors head for the touristy resorts on Maui's miles of golden beaches.
Times, Sunday Times
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Parliament Street is the natural end to the touristy stroll down Temple Bar, so you may not be as lucky.
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Touristy but attractive, the shambolic market lends an appealing air of bustle, while the Douro slips by silently towards the Atlantic.
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On Wednesday we were going to do a touristy sight seeing bus tour thing, to get our bearings, but then we hit on the idea of doing the whole city on rollerblades.
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But what is there actually to do there after you've ticked off all the touristy bits and been ripped off in all the restaurants?
Times, Sunday Times
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You can't walk down the streets in the touristy harbor front area without being accosted by ambitious salesmen insisting you order a suit from the tailor they represent.
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In touristy areas the options for eating out have improved substantially over the last decade or so.
Cheap Eats Guide to Europe 1994
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Perhaps the best thing is that it hasn't yet turned into a really commercial touristy area, so you can still enjoy yourself without too many madding crowds.
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Hong Kong harbour is beautiful and you can go on a junk boat and do all that touristy stuff, which we did.
The Sun
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No problems with border crossings, no advice on bus schedules or FM3s, no observations about real estate values or vacations in touristy resorts.
Another one bites the dust
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Most visitors head for the touristy resorts on Maui's miles of golden beaches.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the touristy parts of Kerala, ayurvedic treatments are ten a penny.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘We had visited the pyramids and done all the rest of the touristy things,’ he said.
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That particular mission was accomplished when some kind touristy soul let us worm our way in front of his milk crate to get closer to the barriers.
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Spending your vacation in the great outdoors is a much better alternative than staying cooped up in a hotel room or visiting touristy theme parks.
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The UNESCO World Heritage site of Pingyao was filled with beautiful temples and was remarkably real in its old-world charm, right down to a dusty decrepitness on most of its streets; I expected it to be more faux and touristy.
The Stresses and Rewards
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Our author makes sure that you'll truly experience the spirit of aloha, and she'll help you steer clear of anything that's overpriced, touristy, or inauthentic .
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If you keep your wits about you in the touristy and downtown areas, you should be fine.
Times, Sunday Times
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That certainly goes for the tour that is one of the most popular -- and "touristy" -- in Iceland: the Golden Circle.
Alda Sigmundsdottir: The Magic of Iceland's Golden Circle
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Independent travellers often steer clear of the most touristy spots.
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The stalls on the side of the road tend to sell cheap touristy products, but you should check them out anyway to sample some of the food items.
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I'm never too interested in monuments and touristy attractions, but I do think the arch is a very beautiful creation, rising sleekly into the sky at the bank of the Mississippi river, denoting the border between Missouri and Illinois.
Archive 2007-05-01
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Nevertheless, most of what a person learns of her in the touristy parts of the French Quarter are myths, twisted truths and lies - as is often the case with most things voodoo.
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Although, in the very touristy areas, the bombardment is a constant reminder of Saigon.
Hoi An and Hanoi « Wanderings
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Independent travellers often steer clear of the most touristy spots.
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Although the street theater seems a bit touristy, the audience consists mostly of locals on their lunch breaks.
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Even on Mull, where we did meet plenty of fellow tourists, Tobermory didn't feel touristy at all relative to Inveraray.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Assisi is the most touristy town in Umbria.
Times, Sunday Times
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Others call the touristy parts of town "Santa Fake" and say the manufactured look appeals to only some visitors.
Change Rolls In to Santa Fe
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It's a bit touristy, but people feel good there.
Times, Sunday Times
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We hadn't wanted to do any evil touristy day tours as such, but it was the easiest thing for this particular location.
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Some of them you could tell were recent and touristy, but others looked pretty authentic.
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Instead, she suggested three relatively touristy alternatives.
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More touristy but by no means inferior is the string of quayside restaurants serving up classic Italian and French dishes.
The Sun
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It is nothing like the busy metropolis of Atlanta nor the more touristy mountain vacation areas of the southeast.
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This is as touristy as it gets on Tobago, with a few tour buses and a handful of beach shacks selling souvenirs - more like a quiet off-season day in any other part of the Caribbean.
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That way you get away from the touristy things and see the local things.
Times, Sunday Times
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We found a couple that were not too touristy and not of the airy-fairy, fluffy-bunny variety, which was refreshing.
"...our ghosts to wander all the water."
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I did a very touristy thing - visited an art gallery.
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tourists descend in busloads...so the whole place is rather touristy
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The right-bankers find the left bank kind of snooty and touristy I suppose.
08/03/2006
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If you keep your wits about you in the touristy and downtown areas, you should be fine.
Times, Sunday Times
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First of all, there's the absurdity inherent in making a touristy tour thing out of something so very serious and depressing.
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We gave up on touristy things as the tourist office closes at the weekend.
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Its also become a little touristy, and I think only more and more tourist will want to come here as the rest of Cape Town's tourist industry commercializes.
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I love the winding streets, and I know it's heavily touristy, but I just love it.
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The creeps are more likely to hang around waiting for unsuspecting victims in touristy zones like the Zona Rosa, so beware.
Mexico City: Biggest city guide for the savvy traveler
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It was touristy, but not developed like tourist towns in the U.S.
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We ascended the hill and passed through Montmartre, a little touristy but still very picturesque.
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So we're not particularly interested in touristy places, although I know we'll be doing a lot of poking through the old parts of town.
Where should we go? What should we do?
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It's more down-to-earth, much smaller and certainly less touristy.
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Alternatively, save by flying to lesser-known airports or staying in less touristy neighbourhoods.
Times, Sunday Times
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"We had visited the pyramids and done all the rest of the touristy things, " he said.
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Touristy places to avoid – especially in August – would be Balearics, Canaries, and North Africa … because they are going to be filled with thousands of French & Brits on family holidays & teenage revelry variations.
Calling in favours
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Regardless of the somewhat touristy aspect, the beauty of learning in a class environment is that it removes the male-determined version of sexy.
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The previous night, I had cruised the Sound on a tired and touristy overnight boat trip, peering through the drizzle at the New Zealand icon and wondering what all the fuss was about.
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We did all the usual touristy things.
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We've walked about 27,000 miles today, from Gard du Nord to the Latin Quarter, which if you look on the map, circumnavigates anything touristy.
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The lean, minimalist design is refreshingly at odds with the usual run of touristy alpine decoration and furnishings featured at other ski resort hotels.
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Options range from the mother of all tourist traps Plataforma, to the still touristy but ever-popular Discoteca Help, to the painfully hip and luxe cigar bar/club Esch Cafe.
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It's very odd there's men in fluorescent vests who keep blowing whistles, presumably whenever a tourist does something a bit too touristy.
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This used to be an attractive seaside town, but now it's become very touristy.
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I have done the touristy bit - restaurants and other things.
The Sun
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The coast is terribly touristy now.
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My favorite bookstores for buying books are any little used book store in any little touristy town, so when you're in, say, Sonoma, and you've tasted so much wine that you are getting a bit buzzy (because spitting is a sin because there are sober children in China), you can wander over to the used book store and breathe the musty smell and find treasures you've never heard of and can't wait to read.
Bookstore Appreciation Time!
