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Definition

a temporary visit to a place

I have fond memories of our sojourn to the south of France.

sojourn = visit (to a place)

I sojourned there for two years.
My sojourn in the corner was a short one.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

sojourn = visit

Our days are fuller than ever, our sojourn in England already a dream.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

sojourn = visit

The wickedness has not been taken out of you, wherever you have sojourned.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
In this manner began the longer part of my sojourn upon this Island of Doctor Moreau.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
Robert related incidents of his sojourn in Mexico, and Edna talked of events likely to interest him, which had occurred during his absence.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
You shared with her her previous sojourn here.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
For all our sojourn here has been based on a vast deception, a concealment of truth which you were not ready to face.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
I am merely a sojourner here in Vanity Fair, being bound to the Celestial City by the new railroad.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Celestial Railroad
You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
Have you long sojourn'd there?
William Shakespeare -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Exiled to reality, my own sojourns across the line are necessarily those of an alien guilty of illegal entry.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
"I can only say that his behavior was all that could be wished during his sojourn with us," Miss Oker said.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
God help me, the name Sojourner was laid on my head like the top teetering crown of a pile of things to remember.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
The covers are weather-worn and tinged with an algal green—for once they sojourned in a ditch and some of the pages have been washed blank by dirty water.
H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
He then, of his own accord, spoke of going home, a subject he has never mentioned to my knowledge during his sojourn here.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
Seven years, then, my sojourn lasted there, and I amassed a fortune, going about among the openhanded Egyptians.
Homer -- The Odyssey
When, the week of Christmas, Abigail went off with the Smiths for a sojourn at Bath, Adams kept steadily at his labors.
David McCullough -- John Adams
His sojourn in Winesburg was not a success.
Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio

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