sojourn
noun
a temporary stay.
was sojourning
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past progressiveof sojourn.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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This world that I was sojourning in was ruled by a diverse group of contemporary American playwrights who were the subject of my graduate theater course.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2020
Ratification of the treaty was expected soon, as President Mazaryk of Czecho-Slovakia was sojourning in Sicily.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had recovered his health but was sojourning for a little time in this old resort of his youth, meeting those who were lads and maidens then but now as venerable as himself.
From Dorothy's Travels by S. Schneider
In my ignorance, however, of the toilsome nature of the excursion, I started from Luz, eighteen miles from Gavarnie, where I was sojourning.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Robert Chambers
In the afternoon, while I was sojourning in the White Castle, an Arab story-teller was presented to me under recommendation of my courteous host.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace
