Sentence examples for playing guide to from inspiring English sources

In the stable parts of Afghanistan, people like Shoib, who have worked as translators for the army and press since 2001, are playing guide to the tiny trickle of tourists.

Dr. Wilson is playing guide to this micro-wilderness -- full of ants, mites, millipedes and springtails in a miniature forest of fungal threads and plant detritus in order to make a point about the value of little creatures and small spaces.

Michael Grandage gives Dominic Cavendish a play-by-play guide to the exciting first season mounted by his company at the Noel Coward Theatre.

Longevity is an issue, especially if you succumb to online playing guides.

Still, nothing pleases him more than playing tour guide to his new home.

Steve Robinette, an administrator at Missouri State University, often plays tour guide to newly arriving Chinese students.

On Sunday at 9 p.m., TLC serves up "SARAH PALIN'S ALASKA," an eight-part series in which Ms. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, keeps viewers guessing about her ambitions as she plays travel guide to her state.

Driving a group of visitors along the dirt roads that snake up and down the mounds of buried refuse, Mr. Diggins plays tour guide to a place poised curiously between activity and dormancy.

If some poets seem eager to play tour guide, to show you every knickknack in the flea market while keeping up a constant stream of patter, a good Gilbert poem is content simply to stare at you — not hostile, not friendly, just very focused.

BETHESDA, MARYLAND Anthony Fauci remembers the last time he played tour guide to the president.

In the words of our host, Phil Doyle, co-author of Design for Play: A guide to creating successful play spaces, "A playground isn't doing its job if it can be mastered by most any child in the first go-round.