Sojourn
noun
A short stay or visit at a place.
I enjoyed a brief sojourn to the seaside during summer.
Often appears as...
- brief sojourn
- summer sojourn
verb
To stay for a while in a place.
She decided to sojourn in Italy for a few months.
Often appears as...
- sojourn in italy
- sojourn abroad
noun
A short stay or visit at a place.
I enjoyed a brief sojourn to the seaside during summer.
Often appears as...
- brief sojourn
- summer sojourn
verb
To stay for a while in a place.
She decided to sojourn in Italy for a few months.
Often appears as...
- sojourn in italy
- sojourn abroad
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Nature
Sojourn emphasizes a short and often temporary stay.
My sojourn in the cabin was refreshing but too brief.
Pro Tip 2/3Plan Specific
A sojourn is often planned for leisure or a particular purpose.
Our sojourn to the national park was for birdwatching.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Flair
The word 'sojourn' may sound more poetic or formal than 'stay.'
During my sojourn in Paris, I wrote many poems.
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Nature
Sojourn emphasizes a short and often temporary stay.
My sojourn in the cabin was refreshing but too brief.
Pro Tip 2/3Plan Specific
A sojourn is often planned for leisure or a particular purpose.
Our sojourn to the national park was for birdwatching.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Flair
The word 'sojourn' may sound more poetic or formal than 'stay.'
During my sojourn in Paris, I wrote many poems.
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Nature
Sojourn emphasizes a short and often temporary stay.
My sojourn in the cabin was refreshing but too brief.
Pro Tip 2/3Plan Specific
A sojourn is often planned for leisure or a particular purpose.
Our sojourn to the national park was for birdwatching.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Flair
The word 'sojourn' may sound more poetic or formal than 'stay.'
During my sojourn in Paris, I wrote many poems.
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Black Women and the...
sojourner truth or harriet tubman so i wanted to write a history that helped us appreciate the long tradition of black women's politics the long struggle for black women for not only voting rights but for little political power so that we could
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Why the best hire might...
goes on a sojourn to India for a year, and to top it off, he has dyslexia. Would you hire this guy? His name is Steve Jobs. In a study of the world's most highly successful entrepreneurs,
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Stop defining yourself...
hello greetings to all of you if we are serious about not wasting time in the short sojourn that we have on planet
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Black Women and the...
sojourner truth or harriet tubman so i wanted to write a history that helped us appreciate the long tradition of black women's politics the long struggle for black women for not only voting rights but for little political power so that we could
Video examples
Why the best hire might...
goes on a sojourn to India for a year, and to top it off, he has dyslexia. Would you hire this guy? His name is Steve Jobs. In a study of the world's most highly successful entrepreneurs,
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Stop defining yourself...
hello greetings to all of you if we are serious about not wasting time in the short sojourn that we have on planet
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Quote examples
Matt Mullenweg
American Businessman
In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach
American Author
Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.
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John Hanning Speke
British Soldier
In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.
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Patrick White
Australian Author
As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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Stephen Daldry
English Director
I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.
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Paul Ricoeur
French Philosopher
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
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Neal Brennan
American Comedian
Why marry myself to an entire album? I don't have to. If I download four songs from somebody on an iTunes sojourn, that's about as good as it gets.
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Ntozake Shange
American Playwright
There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't go around abolishing slavery.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
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Sam Shepard
American Playwright
It's really great to see an actor find himself, in his sojourn.
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Matt Mullenweg
American Businessman
In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach
American Author
Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.
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John Hanning Speke
British Soldier
In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.
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Patrick White
Australian Author
As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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Stephen Daldry
English Director
I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.
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Paul Ricoeur
French Philosopher
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
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Neal Brennan
American Comedian
Why marry myself to an entire album? I don't have to. If I download four songs from somebody on an iTunes sojourn, that's about as good as it gets.
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Ntozake Shange
American Playwright
There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't go around abolishing slavery.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
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Sam Shepard
American Playwright
It's really great to see an actor find himself, in his sojourn.
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