Sentence examples for sojourned from inspiring English sources
"sojourned" is a perfectly acceptable word in written English
It means "to stay or remain somewhere temporarily" and can be used in many contexts. Example sentence: We sojourned in Costa Rica for two weeks before deciding to extend our trip.
This applies especially to Sofie Gråbøl, who sojourned from The Killing to the British-made Fortitude this year.
Disaffected by the social climate in Japan and by his growing fame, Murakami sojourned in Europe for several years in the late 1980s, and in 1991 he moved to the United States.
In 2006 he briefly sojourned in New York City, attending the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Upon reaching Damascus in 1326, Ibn Baṭṭūṭah, the Arab travel writer from Tangier, said that no words could do justice to the city's charm; he resorted to quoting his Maghribi predecessor, Ibn Jubayr, who sojourned in Damascus in 1184 and wrote that Damascus had "adorned herself with flowers of sweet scented herbs" and "is encircled by gardens as the moon…by its halo".
I read that he lived in Mexico, where he was mostly unhappy, and later sojourned in Cuba, where he was mostly unhappy.
It was a polemical response, since "Boston poet" suggested people like Lowell and his students in the Boston University Creative Writing Program, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: genteel, attractive, straight, unstrung, the so-called confessional poets, who sojourned at the McLean psychiatric hospital, in Belmont, among what Lowell called the "Mayflower screwballs".
Seneca was originally from Spain but he spent much of his life in Rome, except for a long convalescent sojourn in Egypt, and some years in exile on Corsica in the wake of a sex scandal.
He belongs to those who are persecuted, to the "awkward squad", to Black history, to many nations and regions, to those who sojourn and travel, to those who look for something more enduring than celebrity culture.
The imagery features the Jewish feast of Sukkot, which is both a harvest thanksgiving and a celebration of the Jews' sojourn in Egypt.
Syrians who wish to sojourn in London have to pay 6,100 Syrian pounds (£78, or $123), half a month's average salary.
The trafficker spent the next eight years in high-security jails in Mexico, though his sojourn behind bars was reputedly softened by access to luxuries including good food and girlfriends.
