How to Use grand tour in a Sentence

grand tour

noun
  • They offered to give us a grand tour of their new house.
  • That gives it a clean sweep of cycling’s three grand tours.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 17 June 2026
  • This running shoe is, in essence, a grand tour coupe for one’s feet.
    — Brett Braley, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2022
  • These are anxious times for the grand tours like the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Watch Mila take the grand tour and hang with the Jim Beam family.
    — Hallie Gould, Marie Claire, 20 Feb. 2014
  • It’s been called a love letter to Italy and a grand tour through the nation’s history and culture.
    — Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The Chicago Griswolds win a grand tour and head for the Old World to soak up culture.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Yet Molly, determined to get married and amused by his move, follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
  • An explosive temper may seem trivial, but controlling one’s emotions is a huge part of winning a grand tour.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2024
  • Nearby is Saint Theo's, which serves up a grand tour of Italy — and has quickly become a hotspot for the style set.
    — Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The only reason most of these posh yahoos are here is because the grand tour is an experience they are supposed to collect.
    — Jackson Arn, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Their technical customer care representative Barb met us and gave us the grand tour.
    — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 22 June 2023
  • Out of This World is a grand tour of excellence, one that not only plays to but accentuates her strengths.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 12 July 2024
  • The visit was short; Uranus was one stop on the mission’s grand tour of the solar system, and the probe made its observations while on the move.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022
  • If the Night King takes off on a grand tour, the entire continent will be facing a zombie apocalypse overnight.
    — Chanel Vargas, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Sep. 2017
  • In his only grand tour that year, the Vuelta, Vingegaard finished an unpromising 46th.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 June 2024
  • With the proceeds, Brown and her then-husband, the artist Manuel Neri, embarked on a grand tour of Europe.
    — Peter Plagens, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
  • At Songbyrd, this slow-starting but ever-building epic ended the main set with a grand tour of Kim’s guitar technique.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
  • And to take Taylor’s bag from her hands with the confidence of a hostess just months after bumping her carry-on through a grand tour of arrondissements.
    — Megan Angelo, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Lizzo was given a grand tour of the Library of Congress' flute vault – the largest such collection in the world – where it has been kept in the vault for decades.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, launched in 1977 on a grand tour of the outer solar system.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Netflix made Spacey its unofficial spokesman, taking him on a prelaunch grand tour to declare that streaming was the future of television.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Maybe it was mandated by what the stars wanted to do, but any show that has not one but two George Jones tributes in the course of an evening counts as a bit of a grand tour itself.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025
  • When the Clipper guard’s grand tour continued in July in Greece, the trip was as much about his vocation as vacation.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • In 2011, my grandparents planned this grand tour of Turkey where all of my aunts and uncles and cousins got to go across the country together.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 May 2023
  • This week brings the third installment in our grand tour of tortillerías in San Antonio with a focus on downtown and the South Side.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • That choice made Voyager 1 veer off its grand tour of the outer planets and head up and away from the orbital plane of our solar system, putting in on course for interstellar space.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The stage finished in a bunch sprint, with XDS Astana’s Guillermo Thomas Silva getting his first grand tour stage win.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • The stage finished in a bunch sprint, with XDS Astana’s Guillermo Thomas Silva getting his first grand tour stage win.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • In cycling, World Tour riders usually have at least 3 different bikes for a grand tour — a normal bike, at least one TT bike, and a climbing bike.
    — Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2021

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