sojourn
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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
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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
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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
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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
Vocabulary lists containing sojourn
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Grade 10, List 5
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 14–18
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