Sentence examples for sojourn that from inspiring English sources

SEATTLE — For the Yankees, the western sojourn that began Friday night is not just a nine-game trip.

He spent the following summer at the American University in Cairo — a sojourn that launched a career in public speaking.

Jose Padilla was named an "enemy combatant" in June; he was arrested in a Chicago airport after an overseas sojourn that supposedly included visits to terrorist camps in Afghanistan and meetings with Al Qaeda leaders.

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.

For a time in the 1980s he lived in China, where he taught in Beijing at the Central College of Fine Arts and Crafts, a sojourn that ended with a retrospective of his work at the Museum of the Chinese Revolution (now the National Museum of China) in Tiananmen Square.

At age 27 he bought his first store; he spent the next 17 years dabbling in various fashion enterprises, a sojourn that delivered some mild successes and outright failures.

It was apparently during these sojourns that he came to know and appreciate some of the theories of the German-Swiss physician Paracelsus.

It was on such performances — rather than on his policy proposals or public speeches or transatlantic sojourns — that his authority seemed to rest.

One essay, "Biblical Archaeology," by Lee I. Levine, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, states, "There is no reference in Egyptian sources to Israel's sojourn in that country, and the evidence that does exist is negligible and indirect".

"There is no reference in Egyptian sources to Israel's sojourn in that country," he writes, "and the evidence that does exist is negligible and indirect".

The sisters, who appeared in films from roughly the ages of 5 to 10, later in life recalled their sojourn in that world as if it had been a dream.