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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 resulting book, a deliberately meandering account of her Steel City sojourn, weds memoir, travelogue, philosophical rumination and journalistic investigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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

Titian’s Roman sojourn lasted more than six months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

McCandless assured both Westerberg and Borah that when his northern sojourn was over, he would return to South Dakota, at least for the fall.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

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

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

The organization reminded readers to remember the National Park Service’s “10 Essentials,” a list of basic items recommended for sojourns out into a national park or other wilderness areas.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

We are blessed every day by the union and the victorious sojourns that Malcolm X Shabazz and his beloved Betty Saunders Shabazz shared on this earth.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

But it appears that Rusty, who sojourned briefly beyond the zoo’s bounds nine years ago, was not the only member of his species to show a seeming wish for freedom.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 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

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

The San Francisco-bred politician has made a habit of sojourning to more conservative swaths of California after major elections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024

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

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2018

I went straightway to the old Ebbit House, which was then the fashionable gathering place for military people stationed or sojourning in the capital.

From Why Lincoln Laughed by Russell Herman Conwell


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