Sentence examples for excursion that from inspiring English sources

It caused a scandal and was an excursion that would cost him his place at the following summer's World Cup.

They talked about going to a pizza parlor when the weather improved -- a modest excursion that meant anticipation, possibility.

That was an excursion that ended in a ditch, heavy breathing on the soundtrack as Lambert took cover from the gunfire that had greeted them.

What started off as a quick lunch turned into an eight-hour excursion that ended with a game of miniature golf in a neighboring town.

An excursion that Larsen figured would take about 60 hours turned into a six-day odyssey because of brutal weather on both coasts.

A previous crew left the station unattended last February for more than three hours on an excursion that also was cut short because of a suit problem.

We wanted to get a closer look at the whales, and so the next day, took a tour-boat excursion that left Bay Bulls, south of the city.

Its selection of sailings ranges from three-night trips through the Alaskan fjords to a 15-night excursion that includes three nights in the Denali Park Lodge.

Paving the Way Mr. Parsons recommends a 285-mile excursion that begins in Baltimore and uses the historic National Road to reach Wheeling, W.Va.

More unusual is a seven-day/six-night excursion that begins in Toronto and includes a trip to Niagara Falls before departing for Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The most popular is the musk ox photo safari, a 90-minute excursion that takes visitors jouncing across the brown rock landscape to see some of the 4,000 shaggy, sleepy-eyed beasts that graze locally.