sojourn
noun
a temporary stay.
had been sojourning
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past perfect progressiveof sojourn.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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She had been sojourning among those Lovels, who would doubtless have made the way to deceit and luxury easy for her.
From Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
It was the real Brian Kent that had been sojourning in a far country that was now coming home to his own.
From The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright
Mr. Lawrence Mechlin and wife came to New York to meet George's bride and her sister and take them to Long Branch, where they had been sojourning for the last two months.
From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal
On Thursday, September 6th, they set out from Dublin, where they had been sojourning at the "Ship" Hotel, in Dame Street, towards Assaune, where Greatrackes received his patients.
From Great Astronomers by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
She was pretty easy upon the score of being recognized now; for Mrs. Ducie and her daughters had been sojourning at Stalkenberg, and they did not know her in the least.
From East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood
