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sojourn

[soh-jurn, soh-jurn, soh-jurn] / ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, soʊˈdʒɜrn /
NOUN
brief travel; visit
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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

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

And the comparison to Bowie’s West German sojourn is apt: working with his producers, Styles has clearly immersed himself in the avant-garde, taking chances, and embracing idiosyncrasy.

From Salon Mar. 6, 2026

Or to honesty, as a rule, though he insists that this account of his disastrous Venetian sojourn is genuine.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

After his sojourn among the scientists and engineers of Aberdeen, Loomis returned home to find the practice of law at the Stimson firm unutterably dull.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

After sojourns in Hawaii, Italy and Thailand, the fourth season will take place on the French Riviera against the backdrop of the glamour, deals and parties of Cannes.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2026

Relocation agencies say their new clients go far beyond young adventurers on European sojourns or their retiring parents.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

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

Perhaps on his rare sojourns into civilization, Smith had passed the Howard Automobile Company dealerships springing up.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

Scores of friends and family already have sojourned to Utah to pay their respects to a man who planted in them a passion for the explosive cacophony of color, variety and fragrance found in nature.

From Washington Times Nov. 6, 2015

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

Leaves collect as the door opens to new, returning and — because the Bookstore is one of those havens and Tannenbaum one of those raconteurs — sojourning customers.

From New York Times Apr. 28, 2022

It is just a seaside town, with lots of new houses, which lays itself out to attract sojourning visitors in summer, and such places differ little.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent




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