sojourn

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

‘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