sojourn

in a sentence

Our days are fuller than ever, our sojourn in England already a dream.  (source) Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

McCandless assured both Westerberg and Borah that when his northern sojourn was over, he would return to South Dakota, at least for the fall.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ridelle have returned from a winter sojourn in Mexico, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Reeves have motored back from their Florida hideaway in Palm Beach, and Mr. and Mrs. T. Perry Grange are back from their cruise amongst the sunny Caribbean isles, while Mrs. R. Westerfield and her daughter Daphne have set out for a visit to France, and to Italy as well, "Mussolini permitting," while Mr. and Mrs. W. McClelland are off to fabled Greece.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

ALL IT HAD TAKEN WAS ONE PARALYZING LOOK OUT THE REAR window of Henry's sedan to realize their sojourn had ended.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

"And bring Pathfinder and Sojourner rover back with him," Mindy added.†  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

Or, at least, I believed that she had sojourned in the land of the unimaginable, as I had.†  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

Why after so many years of longing for home did these sojourners abandon it so shortly upon their return?†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.†  (source) The Bible, Old Testament, 1611

Damp and soggy where it was not sharp and rocky, buffeted by storm winds and lashed by the sea, with the air continually a-tremble with the bellowing of two hundred thousand amphibians, it was a melancholy and miserable sojourning-place.†  (source) Jack London, Sea Wolf, 1904

They were staying at the Waldorf, which was J. Edgar Hoover's hotel of choice during his sojourns in New York, but the party was taking place, the ball, the fete, the social event of the season, the decade, the half century no doubt—the ball was in the ballroom at the Plaza.†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

—"I parted," he replied, "But now from one, who sojourn'd not far thence; So were I under shelter now with him!†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1320

To cap matters, Montague had still not recovered from his sojourn in the toilet; he remained confused and disorientated and his parents were to be observed one Tuesday morning striding up the front drive, looking extremely angry.†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

A photograph of Sojourner Truth stared back at me solemn-eyed.†  (source) Octavia Butler, Kindred, 1979