How to Use adjournment in a Sentence

adjournment

noun

• The discovery led to an abrupt adjournment for the rest of the week.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2021
• The end of the film isn’t so much a conclusion as an adjournment.
  — Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2021
• The clerk called the adjournment until 8 p.m., when the House will reconvene.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
• Quick hearings lead to adjournments — and the backlog grows.
  — Sameer Yasir Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• With adjournment scheduled for 6 p.m., all that will be left is to act on the state’s two-year, $135 billion budget.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2020
• An adjournment cannot take place if both chambers do not consent to it.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2019
• On Wednesday night, reps.-elect raced into the chamber at the 14th minute to vote for adjournment, one of them still wearing her puffer coat.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
• Lee said the government will seek an adjournment to Lai’s trial during the process.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
• While many of the bills will fizzle in the coming weeks, several big issues will make their way to Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s desk by adjournment on Sept. 13.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• From roll call to adjournment, the meeting lasted less than 60 seconds.
  — al, 5 Apr. 2022
• That prompted Democrats to walk out, and the hours-long quorum break resulted in the bill dying a day before adjournment.
  — Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2021
• The Senate ended up convening for a total of eight days over the course of the adjournment period.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2019
• Disagreement over rules could lead to adjournment at the outset, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2021
• But still, Trump modified his request to a one-day adjournment.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 19 Jan. 2024
• The adjournment also means that House members cannot be sworn in for the 118th Congress, which includes newcomer Dale Strong.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 3 Jan. 2023
• In the filing, Musk also asks for a stay of action in Twitter’s legal proceedings against him and for an adjournment of the trial.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2022
• But the judge's decision on adjournment didn't occur without a fuss.
  — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2020
• Details would need to be worked out through the legislative process, with lawmakers eyeing adjournment in about two weeks.
  — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2021
• Members shouted out their yeas and nays, and the clerk hastily banged her gavel, announcing the adjournment over the protests of some members who wanted a recorded vote.
  — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2023
• His lawyers called the 14-month delay the longest adjournment in U.S. history featuring the same jury.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2021
• The court also heard from victims and their families who all objected to any adjournment.
  — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2022
• Huge crowds outside the legislature on June 12 forced the adjournment of a debate on the legislation.
  — Time Staff, Time, 16 June 2019
• That date is 90 days past the special session's adjournment when non-emergency laws passed during the session will take effect.
  — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2023
• He was scheduled to testify about the infractions in a trial in November that was postponed, the latest in a string of adjournments since 2018.
  — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 20 May 2023
• The hearings are expected to begin upon final adjournment of the House, which convenes at 10 a.m.
  — Alex Briseno, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2021
• The adjournment came before the chamber could consider a motion by Rapert to extend the session.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2021
• But amid a flurry of activity at the Capitol in the final days of the legislative session, that process never saw the light of day before last week's adjournment.
  — Jason Pohl, azcentral, 7 May 2018
• The deadline for final adjournment of the legislative session is Monday at 6 p.m.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 June 2022
• But Democrats disagreed that the adjournment met procedural rules.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
• Just how much the heat has affected daily life in the Indian capital was captured in the adjournment order of a consumer dispute court last week when the most intense period of the heat wave began.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 29 May 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024