Sentence examples for sightseeing purposes from inspiring English sources
Captain Schettino has said that his superiors ordered him to get close to Giglio Island for sightseeing purposes and that that the ship hit an uncharted rock.
He has said that he took the ship on "touristic navigation," bringing it close to Giglio for sightseeing purposes, and that the rock that opened a gash in its hull was not marked on nautical charts.
Sepp Blatter's longstanding right-hand man Jérôme Valcke has been banned from football for 12 years for a series of offences including using private jets for sightseeing purposes and attempting to facilitate the sale of undervalued TV rights.
Their purposes were sightseeing, just-passing-through-town sex and eventual work at a leper colony.
I would call on all readers to trust such information, rather than being misguided by sensational media reports, and come to Japan with peace of mind for sightseeing, study, business or any other purposes.
A wet evening might not be ideal for sightseeing, but it was perfect for our purposes.
An unwed pregnant teenager; a forced return to an immigrant's homeland for "tax-registration" purposes; the dislocation of the displaced; the weariness of homeless travelers -- this was not a sightseeing excursion!
Pepys, as Tomalin points out, was hardly the first person to write a diary, but most earlier diaries were written for a specific purpose -- usually religious (as an aid to spiritual bookkeeping) or to record travel and sightseeing.
Call it virtual sightseeing.
