Sentence examples for gentle excursion from inspiring English sources

For all the perils that he and the others had faced down, over the decades, this end, on a supposedly gentle excursion, came as a shock to everyone in their circle.

After that, we twig that this gentle, domestic excursion is actually tilting towards oblivion.

Our first excursion was gentle on the eye but less so on the stomach.

The kid-friendly excursion starts with a gentle boat ride that brings snorkelers to calm waters.

A telltale moment comes in the work's surprising lyrical interlude before the return of the heroic main theme — a ruminative passage in which a searching melodic line and gentle chords go through minor-mode excursions.

An eight-hour excursion could involve rapids in the morning followed by gentle runs and a well-deserved lunch in the afternoon.

There was no feeling of movement, no gentle rocking of waves that put one into dreams of past excursions, sailing on high-masted ships to mysterious green islands.

Small-group, hourlong excursions from Hawaii Island and Ocean Tours ($99) take guests just offshore to watch manta rays — gentle giants whose wingspans can exceed 10-feet — eat zooplankton in an elegant ballet of barrel rolls and back flips.

The drive on the two-lane highway is a white-knuckle excursion on a road, with no shoulders, that stretches through a cactus-strewn desert and over gentle rolling hills.

There are at least two Neil Youngs: the gentle, sometimes overly earnest acoustic singer-songwriter and the bone-crushingly loud guitarist who has led bands like Crazy Horse through the most primal rock and roll excursions imaginable.

By Ben Greenman There are at least two Neil Youngs: the gentle, sometimes overly earnest acoustic singer-songwriter and the bone-crushingly loud guitarist who has led bands like Crazy Horse through the most primal rock and roll excursions imaginable.