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sojourn

[soh-jurn, soh-jurn, soh-jurn] / ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, soʊˈdʒɜrn /
NOUN
brief travel; visit
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A 10-day sojourn at the composer’s West Hollywood, Calif., home was congenial and productive, even though Auden reportedly declined to shower or bathe.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Beyond a couple of scuff marks and some debris jammed into the treads, our sojourn had left the shoes looking much as they had when I’d first taken them off the shelf.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

Plans for at least two weddings were being discussed by staff during our sojourn.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

Those uprisings, later coined the Arab Spring, succeeded in bringing about a short democratic sojourn in Tunisia and a much briefer one in Egypt, but they also unleashed unrest.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

“Yes, of course, Mrs. Tilbury. My sojourn in Colin’s room was simply to avoid impoundment in Cleveland. As you know, I have a job at the Park. I can pay you weekly for the room.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

During British rule, the naan remained a food item enjoyed by the elite, but it also travelled to the West through the sojourns of English travellers.

From BBC Dec. 29, 2025

A large, gestural 1972 painting attested to a road not taken, while records of his sojourns in Europe and Africa revealed the influence of architecture on abstract structure.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

Abu Warda gunned the tractor’s engine, pushing it faster as he passed the shell of a seaside cafe where his family once stopped for tea and grilled chicken on weekend sojourns.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 12, 2025

We have him to thank, then, for the series’ sojourns to the deck of 19th century pirate Zheng Yi Sao’s ship and the Trojan War.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2024

We are blessed every day by the union and the victorious sojourns that Malcolm X Shabazz and his beloved Betty Saunders Shabazz shared on this earth.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

So he wandered out of the facility and sojourned down Pacific Coast Highway to make his way to Barney’s Beanery, the famous bar he frequented in West Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 18, 2022

But it appears that Rusty, who sojourned briefly beyond the zoo’s bounds nine years ago, was not the only member of his species to show a seeming wish for freedom.

From Washington Post Jul. 4, 2022

Species of fish, unfit for human consumption, were food for various vulnerable migratory birds that sojourned along its banks.

From Seattle Times Jun. 12, 2022

Although there are no photographs of the home as it looked when the original owners briefly sojourned there, Scott said she suspects the vision today is probably more lush than in bygone times.

From Washington Times Jun. 3, 2017

All night long Sarai had sojourned in dreamscapes wholly alien to her.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Part of this is in the rich tradition of European reporters sojourning in the United States who find casual grotesques about Americans far more lucrative and less taxing than actually trying to meet the natives.

From Slate Mar. 10, 2026

Moreover, a little solo sojourning is good for all of us.

From Salon Aug. 3, 2025

He spent much of his adult life in Michigan, moving up through the ranks of the state Legislature and serving as the speaker pro tem twice before sojourning to Arizona.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2024

Between courses, she explored on her own, staying with friends and relatives or sojourning in hostels and hotels.

From Washington Post Mar. 22, 2018

Hans had been sent to Cape Alexander, where Kalutunah was sojourning, to invite him to the brig in order to secure his aid in the proposed northern trip.

From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge




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