Sample sentences for EXCURSION

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Definition

a short journey taken for pleasure

or:

a digression from the main path of a journey

We booked excursions at every port where our cruise ship stopped.

excursions = short journeys taken for pleasure

many summer excursions to the shore
Every seat was crowded, too; for it was Sunday, and consequently everybody was taking a "pleasure" excursion.
Mark Twain -- A Tramp Abroad
Being now destitute of provisions, the travellers found it necessary to make a short hunting excursion after buffalo.
Washington Irving -- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West
When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

excursions = side trips taken for pleasure

He made a brief excursion up the Bill Williams River, a tributary of the Colorado, then continued downstream through the Colorado River Indian Reservation, the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

excursion = side trip

He tried to piece it all together, to go back to the normal pattern of life a few short days ago before the sieve and the sand, Denham's Dentifrice, moth voices, fireflies, the alarms and excursions, too much for a few short days, too much, indeed, for a lifetime.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

excursions = temporary side-trips taken from the path of the main journey

At the mention of an excursion, the four children were wild with delight, and, capering around me, clapped their hands for joy.
Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson

excursion = a short journey

I supposed they had not come from the south, in the winter, for a pleasure excursion; and now the nature of their business was very plain.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
When she died I was able to physically leave the place I'd been making little mind excursions from ever since I learned to read.
Kaye Gibbons -- My Mother, Literature, and a Life Split Neatly into Two Halves
Attolia responded with invitations to musicals and dancing and excursions into the countryside.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
50 each way, cheaper if I could run into an excursion rate out of Washington.
Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
A party, of which he formed one, landed at Borneo, and passed into the interior on an excursion of pleasure.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
In the back of the Excursion, I could feel my heart beating.
Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
This little dog lived in their shed, sleeping beside Karataev at night; it sometimes made excursions into the town but always returned again.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Then she said suddenly: "O, Mr. Conroy, will you come for an excursion to the Aran Isles this summer?
James Joyce -- Dubliners
When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I would spend the following day going through all the paperwork and canceling every trip, every excursion I had booked.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
She has now run away from three foster families in three months and obviously risks coming to some harm during her excursions.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
After their little excursion to Tuck's, Abee realized he was starving.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me

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