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