How to Use adjourn in a Sentence

adjourn

verb
  • The chairperson has adjourned the meeting.
  • Congress will not adjourn until the budget has been completed.
  • The meeting adjourned at 4:00.
  • Court is adjourned until 10:00 tomorrow.
  • The court adjourned for a month.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Combs appeared overwhelmed as court adjourned for at least a few hours.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 2 July 2025
  • Schumer said the Senate will not adjourn until the bill is passed.
    — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The case was adjourned until June 4.
    — ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • His bail has been extended, and the case has been adjourned until next month.
    — Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The group adjourned to a restaurant next door to celebrate over lunch.
    — Carolyne Zinko, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The couple talked for hours, later adjourning to the jazz club next door.
    — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Brunson then banged her gavel and said the meeting was adjourned.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The meeting adjourned until next week.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2026
  • As a vote to adjourn neared, Gaetz walked to McCarthy.
    — Zak Hudak, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • Last year, session adjourned on April 26.
    — Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Congress has now adjourned for the week and is too late to prevent a lapse in food stamp benefits.
    — Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The hearing has adjourned for today and will start again Friday.
    — Sergey Gudkov and Anna Chernova, CNN, 18 July 2024
  • First of all, the Democrats stood up and did dilatory actions, asked to adjourn.
    — CBS News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • By the time the judge adjourned the court, Bryan was disconsolate.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Rather than a decision to move the case forward or not, the court agreed to adjourn until at least next month.
    — Austin Meek, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Court adjourns for lunch The sentencing has adjourned for a lunch break.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • As soon as the House floor reopened for debate, the Democrats forced a vote to adjourn.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Twin Cities, 22 May 2025
  • There is no hard deadline for the legislature to adjourn.
    — Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The hearing has been adjourned until Apr 3, when a full inquest will be set.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Both the House and Senate adjourned sine die on the evening of April 2.
    — Idaho Statesman, 10 Apr. 2026
  • And then the chamber decided to adjourn.
    — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
  • Both chambers adjourned just seconds after the final map vote.
    — Terry Collins, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • But the House adjourned on Monday with no plans for the committee to meet.
    — Alexa Ura, star-telegram, 9 May 2017
  • With the Legislature scheduled to adjourn for the year in two weeks, the time to act is short.
    — David Donovan, New York Daily News, 22 May 2024
  • The two sides adjourned after around three hours of talks and resumed the discussions later.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2026

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