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sojourn

[soh-jurn, soh-jurn, soh-jurn] / ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, soʊˈdʒɜrn /
NOUN
brief travel; visit
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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

More gave Holbein a place to stay while the painter was in London and became his most important patron during his two-year sojourn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 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

Taking a break in the Tinian officers’ club with Serber and Phil Morrison, a theoretical physicist from Berkeley, he remembered Ryokichi Sagane and his two-year sojourn at the Rad Lab.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

It would be interesting to see what creative inspirations the Europeans brought back from their American sojourns in addition to novel crops and precious metals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

But these sojourns on cheap horses were rarities.

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

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

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

This world that I was sojourning in was ruled by a diverse group of contemporary American playwrights who were the subject of my graduate theater course.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2020

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

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2017

The regent had been, for ten or twelve days, sojourning with the Marquis, or Marchioness, of Hertford, at their seat near Sudbury.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton




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