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sojourn

[soh-jurn, soh-jurn, soh-jurn] / ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, soʊˈdʒɜrn /
NOUN
brief travel; visit
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Ernst Baerwald’s odyssey from a cushy childhood in Frankfurt to his final days in a beautiful Berkeley mansion, with a long sojourn in Tokyo along the way, reads like, well, a novel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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

The train stood waiting, stocked for a long sojourn in the East.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

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

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

Although there are no photographs of the home as it looked when the original owners briefly sojourned there, Scott said she suspects the vision today is probably more lush than in bygone times.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 3, 2017

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

However, with the Wizards, the smallish and sojourning guard now has a cemented role.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2017

She would “shake her head and frown down a legion of children,” and “the wild ones went home tame enough after sojourning for a few months beneath her hospitable roof.”

From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes


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