sojourn
Collocations
4ADJ.
local
VERB + SOJOURN
increase
SOJOURN + NOUN
anesthetics, earth
PREP.
during, into, on
Definitions
noun
A short stay somewhere.
Better the dark, silent, and fated waves of ocean, than the troubled waves of life. There are some whose sojourn on this earth is brief as it is bitter.
But if, as we have seen, Wu's ambivalent attitude toward the conventional route to success originated in his early appreciation of the idealistic virtues of his father, then it is possible that parts of the work could have been written much earlier, perhaps even during his sojourn with his father in Chiang-su.
A temporary residence.
Though long detain'd / In that obscure sojourn
verb
To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, […] and here sojourned three days.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6Better the dark, silent, and fated waves of ocean, than the troubled waves of life. There are some whose sojourn on this earth is brief as it is bitter.
WiktionaryBut if, as we have seen, Wu's ambivalent attitude toward the conventional route to success originated in his early appreciation of the idealistic virtues of his father, then it is possible that parts
WiktionaryThe use of vasoconstrictors to increase the sojourn of local anesthetics at the site of infiltration continues[…]
WiktionaryAbram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
WiktionaryThe soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, […] and here sojourned three days.
WiktionaryAnd there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.
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