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sojourn

soh jern

  • n  a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)
  • v  spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily

  • It was satyagraha that first bound Nehru to Gandhi, soon after the latter's return to India in 1915 from a long sojourn in South Africa, where his morally charged leadership of the .
  • Calderazzo's sojourn soon ended at Ullo's San Fernando Valley home.
  • If Tony Blair is considering running for EU president, he may find the going tough if his weekend sojourn in France is anything to go by.
News & Articles

  • Is it time to rewrite the movie star-Broadway compact?
    I spent the last 10 days or so on the Tonys beat, an enjoyable seasonal sojourn that offers a nice change of pace from, say, the grind of Oscar season or the hothouse of TV show sets. You can spend your whole life covering Hollywood and not come across someone who suggests Abraham Lincoln may have had a disturbing shoe fetish.        
    June 15, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
  • Dan Walters: Trailer bill language spells trouble
    As a legislative conference committee was doing its item-by-item sojourn through the state budget this month, many were marked "tbl." It was insider shorthand for "trailer bill language," but it just as easily could have stood for "trouble," because that's what the annual exercise of writing bills to accompany the budget has become.
    June 15, 2013 - Merced Sun-Star
  • Over the river
    LEWISTOWN - One-by-one the kayakers and canoers participating in the annual Sojourn, drifted in to Victory Park on Tuesday for a lunch break.
    June 12, 2013 - The Lewistown Sentinel
Quotes

  • Anwar Ibrahim in The Canberra Times
    Basically these years of sojourn and wilderness did help,Anwar says. "You empathise with people as people. I am very Malay; I love the language; I follow the Indonesian literature a lot : I am also a committed Muslim. I fast, I pray, but...
  • Sir Alex Ferguson in Sportinglife.com
    When asked whether he thought it was fate, with this year being the 50th anniversary of the Munich disaster Ferguson added: "I think so. I think we deserved to win it. We started the British sojourn into Europe in 1955 and we deserved to get his...
  • Kabir Bedi in Times of India
    Essentially, Bollywood, Hollywood, European films, theatre or television they are all different mediums for entertainment where different techniques and skills are used,says Kabir. "However, when I look back at my sojourn, I feel a fair...

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