Examples of sojourn in a Sentence

Noun 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 Verb '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 See More

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Dana’s seminary sojourn was always more about deepening her spiritual life than finding a vocation. — Dan Cryer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022 Malliouhana itself, with its bright celadon blue and mango splashes of color, is also as vibrant and serene as its natural surroundings and a wonderful choice for a Caribbean sojourn. — Beck Bamberger, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022 The annual sojourn started with a near-frantic desire to expose a young Winchester, our first pointing dog, to as many wild birds as possible. — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2022 Even if the seeds survive the sojourn, that doesn’t mean olingos get to take all the credit; other animals may still be involved. — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2022 Musicians from a small Egyptian police orchestra have an unplanned sojourn in a remote Israeli town in Itamar Moses and David Yazbek’s Tony-winning 2016 musical based on the 2007 film of the same name. — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022 After travels that included a nine-month sojourn in Buenos Aires, Duchamp resettled in Paris in 1919. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022 Speaking of sound, noise-canceling headphones are another key player in a joyful journey—investing in a good pair will make any sojourn less arduous, not to mention comfier for your eardrums. — Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2022 The luxury cruise ship, Crystal Symphony, was scheduled to port in Miami on Saturday after a two-week sojourn in the Caribbean, but diverted to the Bahamas with about 300 passengers and 400 crew members after a U.S. court issued an arrest warrant. — Fox News, 23 Jan. 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb The Red Wings sojourn through the Great White North, this time facing the Oilers. — Andrew Hammond, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2022 Organizer Bob Hannaford said the swingers sojourn in New Orleans was initially scheduled for the summer but was postponed because of the pandemic. — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 13 Nov. 2020 The safest way to sojourn into the haunted, creepy and macabre, especially during a pandemic, is never to leave home. — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 27 Oct. 2020 For two weeks in August each year, the family would sojourn to the Atlantic Coast for a vacation, first at Ocean City and later at Bethany Beach and elsewhere. — Jacob Wallace, Washington Post, 22 May 2020 To the city folk who sojourn there, West Marin is an agrarian idyll. — Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 21 May 2020 The author Richard Bach and the puppeteer Jim Henson sojourned to meet Ms. Roberts. — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019 After sojourning in season 1-land in the season 8 premiere, Arrow is heading to another familiar location from its past. — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2019 Along the rugged coastline of southern Greece, our ancient human relatives may have sojourned in what was once a balmy refuge from the encroaching glaciers of the mid-Pleistocene. — Maya Wei-haas, National Geographic, 10 July 2019 See More

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History and Etymology for sojourn

Noun

Middle English sojorn, from Anglo-French sujur, sujurn, from sujurner — see sojourn entry 2

Verb

Middle English, from Anglo-French sujurner, sejurner, from Vulgar Latin *subdiurnare, from Latin sub under, during + Late Latin diurnum day — more at up, journey

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