sojourn
noun
a temporary stay.
were 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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It so happened that on that same evening the Governors of four states were sojourning in the city of Wall Street and Broadway, and by preference chose to spend their time and money on Broadway.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was always very interesting to hear their criticisms of the customs and outlook of the people with whom we were sojourning.
From The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott
We were sojourning between Anaheim and the sea.
From Stories of the Foot-hills by Margaret Collier Graham
Some French clergymen, who were sojourning in Berlin in 1842, asked Neander, "What ought to be done to arouse the Protestants of France to thinking upon theological subjects?"
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
She returned to the villa to find visitors, women whom she had known in girlhood, who had married members of the Italian nobility, and now were sojourning in the neighborhood.
From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman
