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 | Pgattis@al.com, 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

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