[
UK
/sˈəʊdʒɜːn/
]
[ US /ˈsoʊdʒɝn/ ]
[ US /ˈsoʊdʒɝn/ ]
NOUN
- a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)
VERB
- spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily
How To Use sojourn In A Sentence
- Kind and tempting was the invitation to prolong my stay at the See House; enticing was the prospect offered me of a visit to a seigneurie on the Ottawa; and it was with very great reluctance that, after a sojourn of only one day, I left this abode of refinement and hospitality, and the valued friends who had received me with so much kindness, for a tedious journey to New The Englishwoman in America
- This is a comparatively extrovert third album from the talented and technically advanced young Scots harper and pianist, now sojourning in Barcelona and soaking up even more musical influences.
- At one of those remarkable omnium-gatherum receptions at the Tuileries, of which I have spoken in a former chapter, she heard an American lady, to whom Louis Philippe was talking of his American recollections and of various persons he had known there, say to him, “Oh, sire, they all retain the most lively recollections of your majesty's sojourn among them, and wish nothing more than that you should return among them again!” What I Remember
- During much of my sojourn, travel will be in the major cities with only the occasional trip to somewhere remote and probably unpronounceable.
- Brooks managed to squeeze 'peripatetic', 'equanimity', 'homeostasis', 'sojourner', 'grandiloquent' and 'didactic' into the brief 850 word article on the inner workings of Obama's mind, exposing a fragile psyche of his own, and a desperate need to validate his position as a national talking head. Ben Cohen: David Brooks and Big Words
- They ceased to be temporary sojourners in the cities, expected to return to the homelands, often inferior pieces of land far away from industrial centres and jobs, where they held permanent residence.
- After his sojourn at Versailles, he brought with him a vogue for French and Continental cuisine.
- Alas his sojourn into being an op/ed columnist has totally perverted him.
- There should be opportunity for a comfortable adjustment of the stethoscope and pneumograph, etc., and the clothing should be warm enough to enable the subject to remain comfortable and quiet during his sojourn inside the chamber. Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man
- A sojourning congregation is no longer ecclesiastical. Transparency, Creativity, and Heresy