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
A day or two later the beggar and his grandchild appeared at the private entrance of the hotel where the signora was sojourning.
From Idle Hour Stories by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
The woman, who proved to be the wife of the innkeeper at whose “hotel” I was sojourning, was shivering with the cold, and her wet garments were rapidly congealing in the keen frosty air.
From Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others by George Manville Fenn
The people she was sojourning with pitied her anxiety.
From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various
