resort
Example Sentences
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Previous seasons have required contestants to resort to old-fashioned methods to get around, including hitchhiking and relying on the kindness of strangers.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Southern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake in the 1950s and ’60s.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
In February last year, Antoine Kassis checked into the Windsor Golf Hotel & Country Club, a Victorian-style resort an hour north of Nairobi.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
The event is leading up to a G7 summit in the French Alpine lakeside resort of Evian in June to be chaired by President Emmanuel Macron.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
“One of my first CDs. My sister wanted it, so she gave it to me for Christmas. Do you always resort to plagiarizing song lyrics to impress a girl?”
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.