Sentence examples for sightseeing ride from inspiring English sources

Four years later, he went up in a plane for the first time, a $1.50 sightseeing ride in a Ford Tri-Motor.

Sometimes I'd take a leisurely stroll up the beach and chat up one of the fishermen; many will take you for a sightseeing ride in their boats for a modest and negotiable fee.

Jack Morey, whose family owns the Wildwood amusement piers, said that the rides would range from about $20 for a four-minute sightseeing ride to custom rides that would be arranged with the operators.

In June 1944, while in New Guinea teaching pilots to fly the Black Widow, Mr. Myers gave a sightseeing ride to Charles Lindbergh, who was coaching military pilots in the Pacific.

About three dozen cable car passengers on a sightseeing ride were stranded for nearly five hours on Wednesday night at the Bronx Zoo after an emergency mechanism caused the ride to shut down, leaving riders dangling over the African Plains exhibit and other parts of the zoo.

-- Rita M. Sanderson, Fort Lauderdale, Fla .A. You won't find any blimps (or airships) offering sightseeing rides in London.

However, Mr. Wager did abstain from the vote to have one company, Helicopter Services and Instruction, provide sightseeing rides on the chopper, which would have taken off and landed from the end of the Spencer Avenue pier.

Jerry then realizes that he has no chance with Laura, but has already committed himself – and his one-bedroom apartment – to an entire weekend with her, including a five-hour sightseeing boat ride around Manhattan.

For example, in our study of crashes of sightseeing balloon rides, hard landings were very common.

Visitors ride sightseeing "trains," about $22 for a three-day pass, between sites that for most people would be pretty walkable -- passing signs like "Authentic Old Drugstore" and "Fine Art Gallery" that scream the opposite, and making a stop at a 600-year-old oak tree nicknamed the Old Senator with a Howard Johnson motel built around it.

They also look for beach activities such as swimming, para-sailing, skin diving, scuba diving certification, kayaking, sailboat excursions, jungle rides, cave exploration, sightseeing and shopping.