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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 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

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

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

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


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