sojourn
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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
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
All that ended abruptly the day his father returned from a sojourn in King’s Landing.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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The author of the novel “Cloud Six” on conversations with angels, sojourns in limbo and one memorable journey to the world of the damned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing sojourn
Grade 10, List 5
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 14–18
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