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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Washington Post Jun. 22, 2017

But little it mattered to them in a general way what sort of a lot their fellow-countrymen there sojourning might or might not be.

From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford




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