sojourn
noun
a temporary stay.
are sojourning
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present progressiveof sojourn.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Only a few well-arranged native curios, a good piano, and the kind of things people from home gather about them when they are sojourning in a foreign land.
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley
When he declares they are sojourning in a wicked place, the Red Cross Knight springs out of bed and, helped by his attendant, hastens away from a spot which now inspires him with unspeakable horror.
From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
And the man who thus writes is—not a Christian, for that he denies—but, forsooth, a poet! one of the Great spirits who on earth are sojourning!
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
Great spirits now on earth are sojourning; He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake, Who on Helvellyn's summit, wide awake, Catches his freshness from Archangel's wing: He of the rose, the violet, the spring.
From Poems 1817 by John Keats
But I bid you welcome in the name of my son-in-law, on whom—I should say, with whom—I and my babes are sojourning in this clamorous city.
From Iole by Arthur C. Becker
