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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sojourn.

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Examples

  • Bode explained to the small group that sojourned to Wades Bay on Aug. 28 that the best places to look for marine fossils are right along where the tide turns.

    Fossils unearthed at Purse State Park 2010

  • When the car alarms got too insistent we threw water balloons at them; we grew basil and mint on our fire escape and sojourned on the roof for brief vacations from the sensory overload of the street.

    Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

  • Later chapters carry things forward, first to the Netherlands (where the Pilgrims sojourned for roughly a decade), then overseas to the hallowed settlement they called Plimoth Plantation.

    Book review of "Making Haste From Babylon," by Nick Bunker John Demos 2010

  • For the last 34 years Dr. Little, 61 sojourned unpaid to the far flung nether regions of Afghanistan coordinating eye care for some of poorest people in the world, in work sponsored in part by a hometown church, the First Presbyterian Church in the update New York City of Schednectady.

    Brian Levin, J.D.: Christianity's Gift to the World Must Be Protected From Repression and Violence J.D. Brian Levin 2010

  • In summer the Suruts sojourned to their country house at Arverne in Rockaway Queens.

    Michael Henry Adams: Tour Time in Harlem! 2010

  • I sojourned and I journeyed until my paws were raw with soot and dry scabs.

    A Mess 2010

  • We have sojourned through time and space on this Earthplane level of existence to come to a point of convergence: a convergence of human experience, of trials and errors, of a multitude of learning lessons, to demonstrate to us to that which works and does not work.

    Mike Schwager: The Message of the One 2010

  • In summer the Suruts sojourned to their country house at Arverne in Rockaway Queens.

    Michael Henry Adams: Tour Time in Harlem! 2010

  • I sojourned and I journeyed until my paws were raw with soot and dry scabs.

    Ioh 2010

  • For the last 34 years Dr. Little, 61 sojourned unpaid to the far flung nether regions of Afghanistan coordinating eye care for some of poorest people in the world, in work sponsored in part by a hometown church, the First Presbyterian Church in the update New York City of Schednectady.

    Brian Levin, J.D.: Christianity's Gift to the World Must Be Protected From Repression and Violence J.D. Brian Levin 2010

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