Definition of sojourn
:a temporary stay
- a sojourn in the country
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Examples of sojourn in a Sentence
- The visit with my father was preceded by a sojourn with my sister, Joy—an artistic type and sometime vegan who plays the part of patient vegetarian whenever her unrepentantly carnivorous brother drops in—and her husband, who were kind enough to pick me up at Heathrow. —John Haney, Gourmet, January 2003
- On a recent sojourn in Sicily, I frequently found myself remembering that page in the children's encyclopedia, because it seemed to me that what I was seeing was as close as I will ever come to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. —Francine Prose, Atlantic, December 2002
- My mother is Venezuelan, and every year during my childhood we spent a two-month sojourn with her family there. —Alexandra Starr, New Republic, 20 May 2002
Our family enjoyed a two-week sojourn in the mountains.
spent a relaxing sojourn in her friend's summer home
Recent Examples of sojourn from the Web
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The streets around Trump Tower have become an oppressive no-man’s land, excluding pedestrians as well as vehicles from a chunk of midtown Manhattan during the president’s sojourn.
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After the president* took his sojourn into the izonkosphere on Tuesday afternoon, CNN cut back to Tapper, who looked very much like a man who had seen space aliens humping in his jacuzzi.
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The rumor of McMaster’s hypothetical Afghan sojourn comes at a curious time, too.
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Brady’s body coach, holistic fitness Svengali Alex Guerrero, describes the Asia sojourn as their version of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (a reference best understood by those who are Brady’s age and older).
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Washington (CNN)In normal times, President Donald Trump's two-day sojourn to Paris would be a simple and uncomplicated mission.
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Like his manager, Bailey isn’t putting too much stock in one outing, and doesn’t care to assign much meaning to his three year sojourn in the desert of elbow issues.
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Gov. Kim Guadagno, his deputy since 2010 and the GOP's nominee to succeed him, has criticized Christie for his sojourn on state land as the budget impasse in Trenton continues.
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Shortly after her husband and two teenage kids leave for a four-day sojourn at the state fair, a lonely Iowa housewife named Francesca sees a stranger pulling into her driveway.
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Origin and Etymology of sojourn
Examples of sojourn in a Sentence
- 'Am I hideous, Jane?' 'Very, sir: you always were, you know.' 'Humph! The wickedness has not been taken out of you, wherever you have sojourned.' —Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1847
- … there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. —Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleep Hollow, 1820
began their retirement by leisurely sojourning with friends and relatives scattered across the country
Recent Examples of sojourn from the Web
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Honeymooners can sojourn in some seriously dreamy digs—like an over-water bungalow—and the Maldives Huvafen Fushi boasts some of the finest.
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Health in the Penthouse If merely sojourning in wellness isn't enough for you, welcome to the rarefied world of wellness real estate, the third-fastest growing wellness market, according to GWI's research.
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On the first night, 18 aspiring journalists and two resident advisors sojourned down to the basement workshop where a young woman had allegedly been murdered.
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With two days off between Games 3 and 4, the Ducks will sojourn to Kelowna, Canada, more than 500 miles away, for that break.
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SOJOURN Defined for English Language Learners
sojourn
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noun
Definition of sojourn for English Language Learners
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: a period of time when you stay in a place as a traveler or guest
SOJOURN Defined for Kids
Definition of sojourn for Students
:a temporary stay
My family enjoyed a week-long sojourn in Europe.
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