Sentence examples for as a sojourn from inspiring English sources

Achebe was a supporter of Biafran secession, but after the end of the civil war in 1970 he took what he described as a "sojourn" in politics.

The defense took a sojourn, as did the Nets' playoff streak.

It is an unsettling psychological drama in which Ms. Olsen plays the tricky role of an emotionally troubled young woman who, after a sojourn as a cult member on a remote farm in the Catskills, takes refuge with her older sister and brother-in-law at their upscale, lakeside vacation house.

But somewhat to her surprise, what began as a solitary sojourn has morphed into a kind of floating artists' colony and mutual collaboration society, gathering members for days or weeks at a time.

But the actual decision to leave his skinhead posse began as a personal sojourn.

And although he described being in Baltimore as "a beautiful sojourn," he doesn't sound interested in cutting his residency short.

We held hands as we returned home on a sojourn which felt like staying in an alien world".

In a late section (the story is told in chapters corresponding to the seasons) a death in the family calls him from London back to his hometown, Hull, a sojourn that serves as a reminder of how, in today's Britain, class divisions often persist in the form of regional disparities.

She went from the potato ranch to the Universities of British Columbia and Michigan; survived the Great Depression and a sojourn in Texas as a Chinese-Canadian immigrant under Jim Crow, raised a family while teaching in public schools, and, since retirement, has traveled around the world.

Except for a night in jail, a sojourn in Maine, and, as critics like to point out, frequent trips home to visit his parents in Concord, he lived there for the next two years.

A sojourn in the United States led to the discovery of acrylic as a medium, and also to American abstract expressionism.