1. sojourn - Noun
2. sojourn - Verb
To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry.
A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMan is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity. Zygmunt Bauman
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai. Paul Ricœur
... from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.) Mark Twain
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. Plato
Grace, honour, praise, delight, Here sojourn day and night. François Rabelais
Love only enters as a native there, For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here. Edmund Waller