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sojourn

[soh-jurn, soh-jurn, soh-jurn] / ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, soʊˈdʒɜrn /
NOUN
brief travel; visit
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The official reason for Thomas Jefferson’s sojourn to southern France in 1787 was medical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The plan in many ways mimicked last season’s successful sojourn to London to play the Jacksonville Jaguars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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

During his sojourn in the East in 1937, Smith had been caught working Seabiscuit at night four times.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

It would be interesting to see what creative inspirations the Europeans brought back from their American sojourns in addition to novel crops and precious metals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

Tilford advises making wildflower sojourns as soon as sightings come in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

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

The group had sojourned to Badwater Basin, the park’s lowest point and the lowest point in North America, which sits 282 feet below sea level.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2023

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

Inside was a mixed-media painting of storks nesting on a minaret, made by an artist who had sojourned in Bhalil for a month.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2019

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

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

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2018

Part of Santa Barbara-based California Youth Theatre, it featured underage auteurs on summer break sojourning in a rickety school bus to packed playhouses around the state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2017

And, like a child once more at home After long sojourning in alien climes, I lie upon my mother's breast, Feeling the blessedness of rest, And dwelling in the light of other times.

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell




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