How to Use sojourn in a Sentence

sojourn

1 of 2 noun

• Our family enjoyed a two-week sojourn in the mountains.
• At the time, the press mostly used lovey-dovey language to describe the sojourn.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2022
• Yet by the end of this rather long sojourn, Swift looks as if she’s just getting started.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 14 Oct. 2023
• Perhaps a sojourn across a calm lake or a cozy spot under a shady tree may do.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
• There was the sojourn to Paris, freelancing for Parisian firms in the day, and dancing the night away at Le Sept deep into the night.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Oct. 2022
• Passing through Thousand Oaks on your next sojourn up the coast this fall?
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• What was supposed to be a short sojourn turned into months.
  — Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• Jackson’s 1984 sojourn in Birmingham wasn’t his first to the city.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 27 Sep. 2022
• Harper is looking to escape her life for two weeks with a sojourn to the country.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2022
• There was much to reform when the Gorbachevs arrived back in Moscow in 1978 from their long sojourn in the provinces.
  — Marilyn Berger, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• Buffon has taken up a back-up role since returning to the club from his one-year sojourn in France with PSG in 2019.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• In Ikenge, two years have now passed since Lewis’s brief sojourn, but hope for a way to turn peat into profit persists.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
• The pope’s Iraq sojourn was all the more striking for its timing, with the world still gripped by the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2021
• This particular shade of blue really pops and is just the sort of thing to wear for an August sojourn in the south of France.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2023
• For a few years during her second Paris sojourn, Loy ran her own gallery, with Guggenheim.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
• But his long sojourn in Hollywood also strengthened his urge to stay put in Texas and step away from the limelight.
  — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 23 July 2021
• Their 75-pound labradoodle, Murray, is also along for the city sojourn, which ends in August.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• Is this the story of an American finding a new home or taking a sojourn?
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2021
• And finally, many readers pointed out a Maui-sized hole in dragging a dog to the islands for a short sojourn.
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2022
• Completing the team are Nigerien students and Saharan guides, key to any sojourn in the desert.
  — Paul Sereno, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
• Most travelers will fly into and out of Tokyo, and there is no better place to bookend your sojourn.
  — David McElhenney, CNN, 27 Dec. 2021
• The sojourn puts him hundreds of miles away from the Oregon state line and his natal territory.
  — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2021
• During the bear’s sojourn to the hip enclave north of downtown , social media lighted up with posts.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
• During a youthful sojourn in the Netherlands, Oppenheimer doesn’t just learn Dutch in six weeks.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
• Bushman’s Gabriel is three months into his American sojourn as the film opens.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
• Such was Roy Heath’s nearly sixty-year sojourn in the Mother Country.
  — Colin Grant, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• Succulent air plants hang in glass tubes above, as if transplanted from a Joshua Tree sojourn.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
• Biden, nearly 16 months into his tenure, is just now making his first sojourn to the region.
  — Noah Biermanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
• Even if the seeds survive the sojourn, that doesn’t mean olingos get to take all the credit; other animals may still be involved.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2022
• The influence of her European sojourn, which included visits to France and Italy, is evident in this show.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024

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sojourn

2 of 2 verb

• To the city folk who sojourn there, West Marin is an agrarian idyll.
  — Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 21 May 2020
• Along the rugged coastline of southern Greece, our ancient human relatives may have sojourned in what was once a balmy refuge from the encroaching glaciers of the mid-Pleistocene.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 10 July 2019
• Honeymooners can sojourn in some seriously dreamy digs—like an over-water bungalow—and the Maldives Huvafen Fushi boasts some of the finest.
  — Anne Roderique-Jones, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2017
• On the first night, 18 aspiring journalists and two resident advisors sojourned down to the basement workshop where a young woman had allegedly been murdered.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 20 July 2017
• But after the early 20th century, when President Theodore Roosevelt and his large brood sojourned nearby, its vitality mostly ebbed.
  — Julie Besonen, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• After sojourning in season 1-land in the season 8 premiere, Arrow is heading to another familiar location from its past.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• The residents of Blaine will have to endure the polite hordes of Canadians who sojourn here regularly, congesting local roads, patronizing the booming parcel economy, and emptying grocery-store shelves of their favorite products.
  — Alexandra Samuel, The Verge, 20 June 2018
• To the city folk who sojourn there, West Marin is an agrarian idyll.
  — Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 21 May 2020
• Along the rugged coastline of southern Greece, our ancient human relatives may have sojourned in what was once a balmy refuge from the encroaching glaciers of the mid-Pleistocene.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 10 July 2019
• Honeymooners can sojourn in some seriously dreamy digs—like an over-water bungalow—and the Maldives Huvafen Fushi boasts some of the finest.
  — Anne Roderique-Jones, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2017
• On the first night, 18 aspiring journalists and two resident advisors sojourned down to the basement workshop where a young woman had allegedly been murdered.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 20 July 2017
• But after the early 20th century, when President Theodore Roosevelt and his large brood sojourned nearby, its vitality mostly ebbed.
  — Julie Besonen, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• After sojourning in season 1-land in the season 8 premiere, Arrow is heading to another familiar location from its past.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• The residents of Blaine will have to endure the polite hordes of Canadians who sojourn here regularly, congesting local roads, patronizing the booming parcel economy, and emptying grocery-store shelves of their favorite products.
  — Alexandra Samuel, The Verge, 20 June 2018

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