How to Use sojourn in a Sentence

sojourn

1 of 2 noun
  • Our family enjoyed a two-week sojourn in the mountains.
  • Perhaps a sojourn across a calm lake or a cozy spot under a shady tree may do.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Yet by the end of this rather long sojourn, Swift looks as if she’s just getting started.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Harper is looking to escape her life for two weeks with a sojourn to the country.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2022
  • Passing through Thousand Oaks on your next sojourn up the coast this fall?
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Griffin did not face the Padres before his sojourn to Japan.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
  • Griffin did not face the Padres before his sojourn to Japan.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • Plans for at least two weddings were being discussed by staff during our sojourn.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • Plans for at least two weddings were being discussed by staff during our sojourn.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
  • Is this the story of an American finding a new home or taking a sojourn?
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Checked Out runs low-pressure but high-potential group sojourns at chichi hotels.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Most travelers will fly into and out of Tokyo, and there is no better place to bookend your sojourn.
    — David McElhenney, CNN, 27 Dec. 2021
  • During the bear’s sojourn to the hip enclave north of downtown , social media lighted up with posts.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Succulent air plants hang in glass tubes above, as if transplanted from a Joshua Tree sojourn.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • Summer is sighing its last steamy goodbyes, but there’s still time for a quick sojourn before the season slips away later this month.
    — Donna M. Owens, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Biden, nearly 16 months into his tenure, is just now making his first sojourn to the region.
    — Noah Biermanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • Bushman’s Gabriel is three months into his American sojourn as the film opens.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In Ikenge, two years have now passed since Lewis’s brief sojourn, but hope for a way to turn peat into profit persists.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
  • For a few years during her second Paris sojourn, Loy ran her own gallery, with Guggenheim.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
  • The sojourn puts him hundreds of miles away from the Oregon state line and his natal territory.
    — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2021
  • And finally, many readers pointed out a Maui-sized hole in dragging a dog to the islands for a short sojourn.
    — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Even if the seeds survive the sojourn, that doesn’t mean olingos get to take all the credit; other animals may still be involved.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Chevanne said Byblos is special because every sojourn is unique but yet feels like coming home.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
  • Ideal for a solo sojourn, this studio is in a quiet part of town, but within a short walking distance of the city center.
    — Tiffany Harrison, Vogue, 28 July 2023
  • That in turn makes the good-hearted Renfield’s late-night sojourns for therapy that much more humorous.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But his long sojourn in Hollywood also strengthened his urge to stay put in Texas and step away from the limelight.
    — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 23 July 2021
  • The pope’s Iraq sojourn was all the more striking for its timing, with the world still gripped by the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Jackson’s 1984 sojourn in Birmingham wasn’t his first to the city.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 27 Sep. 2022
  • If that’s the plan for this annual summer sojourn, consider adding one of the latest yacht-friendly timepieces to your wrist.
    — Laurie Brookins, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The sojourn to the cookware shop, like almost every other part of any vice president’s life, was at least partly choreographed.
    — Noah Bierman Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2021

sojourn

2 of 2 verb
  • To the city folk who sojourn there, West Marin is an agrarian idyll.
    — Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 21 May 2020
  • The safest way to sojourn into the haunted, creepy and macabre, especially during a pandemic, is never to leave home.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Along the rugged coastline of southern Greece, our ancient human relatives may have sojourned in what was once a balmy refuge from the encroaching glaciers of the mid-Pleistocene.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 10 July 2019
  • On the first night, 18 aspiring journalists and two resident advisors sojourned down to the basement workshop where a young woman had allegedly been murdered.
    — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 20 July 2017
  • Honeymooners can sojourn in some seriously dreamy digs—like an over-water bungalow—and the Maldives Huvafen Fushi boasts some of the finest.
    — Anne Roderique-Jones, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2017
  • As for cosmic weather this week, the planets align on June 28, igniting our adventurous spirits and libidos, eager to live life in the moment and sojourn onward!
    — Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026
  • After sojourning in season 1-land in the season 8 premiere, Arrow is heading to another familiar location from its past.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Our feeds are positively heaving with sunny days, Aperol Spritz by the beach, and leisurely sojourns into the Italian countryside.
    — Angela Law, refinery29.com, 2 July 2024
  • The group had sojourned to Badwater Basin, the park’s lowest point and the lowest point in North America, which sits 282 feet below sea level.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
  • Regardless, Bolsonaro—who has still refused to concede the election—now may be skipping his successor’s inauguration and ditching his wife to sojourn in Florida for up to two months.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Organizer Bob Hannaford said the swingers sojourn in New Orleans was initially scheduled for the summer but was postponed because of the pandemic.
    — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • But after the early 20th century, when President Theodore Roosevelt and his large brood sojourned nearby, its vitality mostly ebbed.
    — Julie Besonen, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The young woman who sojourned to Oberlin College, where she was wrongfully accused of poisoning her classmates and beaten half to death, who raised her hands in defense of herself, then went on to grip clay and rock and chisel to re-create visions of justice.
    — Tyehimba Jess, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The residents of Blaine will have to endure the polite hordes of Canadians who sojourn here regularly, congesting local roads, patronizing the booming parcel economy, and emptying grocery-store shelves of their favorite products.
    — Alexandra Samuel, The Verge, 20 June 2018
  • Trails for Backpackers And for those who are sojourning in nature on foot, Pearson recommends the Greenstone Ridge Trail at Isle Royale National Park.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026

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