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We had been planning this little sojourn for several months.
He took his annual summer sojourn with his cousin Catherine.
The painting is one that the artist completed in Los Angeles during a six-month sojourn here in 1932.

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beard the lion (in his/her den)idiom
been
call (in) on someone
call by
exchange
happen
happen along/by (somewhere)
haunt
have access to someone/something
homestay
pay
pop
regular
round
stay
stomping ground
stop by (somewhere)
stop in
stop off somewhere

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sojourn
verb[ Iusually+ adv/prep ]
 literaryuk /ˈsɒdʒ.ɜːn/ us /ˈsoʊ.dʒɝːn/
to spend a short period staying in a particular place:
Winston Churchill and Francois Mitterrand have sojourned at this glorious former monastery.
He must not sojourn in the house without entertainment.
If they come to sojourn at my house, I will not be there.
He collapsed in a bar in January and subsequently sojourned in intensive care.
The stranger had sojourned in many lands.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Visiting
attraction
beard the lion (in his/her den)idiom
been
call (in) on someone
call by
exchange
happen
happen along/by (somewhere)
haunt
have access to someone/something
homestay
pay
pop
regular
round
stay
stomping ground
stop by (somewhere)
stop in
stop off somewhere

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Staying and remaining

sojourn | American Dictionary

sojourn
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsoʊ·dʒɜrn/
a temporary stay at one place, esp. while traveling

sojourn

verb[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]us/ˈsoʊ·dʒɜrn, soʊˈdʒɜrn/
They sojourned in Memphis to celebrate Elvis Presley’s birthday.

Examples of sojourn

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Everyone can see in detail how housing is built in their sojourns around the city, and hear stories of large profits.
A sojourn in the colonies could, in fact, be a means of acquiring fame and wealth.
It is usually a brief sojourn from the familiar to the forgotten or distant familiar.
Resolving philosophical confusion, bringing language home from its sojourns, is no simple task.
Why should the long, even eternal sojourn on their present territory give a people the right to possess this territory as its homeland?
This corresponds to the discussion on sojourn times above.
We study the asymptotic slowdown, the ratio of expected sojourn time to the service requirement, of customers with very large service requirements.
The expected frequency of the preferred codon type can be calculated from the sojourn time functions for novel preferred and unpreferred mutations.
Thus, we need some condition to make the above derivation work for a more general sojourn set.
We also provide various results dealing with ordering of conditional mean sojourn times of any two given classes.
This again supports our approach of looking at the sojourn time of a customer starting a busy period when working with a time-shared system.
By contribution here we mean the amount of service given to the customers of these sets during the sojourn of the tagged customer.
In the course of our sojourn we saw and discussed a number of shows.
This is a personal day, a terrible day, the day to which his entire sojourn has been tending.
By definition, 'sojourn' emphasises the notion of temporality.
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