to sojourn
- verb
- /ˈsoʊdʒɜrn/
- Formal
- We decided to sojourn in the mountains for a week to escape the city life.
Examples
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At the end of the summer of 1796, she sojourned again in Boston, extending her standard acting repertoire through the spring of 1797.
Academic text (2016) -
However, their interest in Chang Pogo was because the Japanese monk Ennin sojourned at the Fahua Temple while on his pilgrimage in China.
Academic text (2016) -
Instead, we need to "sojourn within our different experiences, and draw from each its specific lesson."
Academic text (2002) -
Their purpose is merely to sojourn a few years as aliens.
Academic text (2002) -
But we sojourn in the land of Canaan.
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There were other Israelites sojourning in Moab and living in Kir-hareseth.
Fiction book (2001) -
When I sojourned at Ao Zalil, to the east of Lake Falas, I saw how it went.
Fiction book (1993) -
Chassriau's use of Roman architecture recalls a popular theme among French painters sojourning in Algeria.
Academic text (2004) -
The protagonist of the play, Shinto, age seventy-nine, must confront his past as an army officer in China, when his first wife, Haru, abandoned in Manchuria, sojourns to Japan in search of her husband.
Fiction book (2001) -
According to a 1712 letter from a priest sojourning in Jingdezhen for several years, the Qing officials he met there repeatedly asked him to provide European models for designing novel decorations and shapes for porcelain.
Academic text (2014)
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Etymology
Sojourn originally meant 'to stay for a day' and comes from old Latin roots like diurn meaning 'day', which you can spot in diary. So, to sojourn is to stay somewhere only for a short time.