(n.) A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
(v. t.) To receive or entertain hospitably.
(v. i.) To be, or act the part of, a guest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
(2) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(3) The duo were given a standing ovation as they took to the stage helped by Evans and guest presenter Robbie Savage.
(4) But by the end of Tony Abbott’s heartfelt speech to 600 guests gathered at a huge fundraiser for the referendum movement on Thursday night, no one was any the wiser.
(5) When Trump had slept over at the family’s residence in upstate New York, Goldberg’s mother prepared breakfast for him in the morning and mistakenly poured salt instead of sugar all over their guest’s cornflakes.
(6) This design feature is well illustrated by the continuing guest for a lithium ion-selective electrode compatible with the high levels of sodium interference in blood.
(7) The computed very low helix content of the alanine homopolymer agrees with experiments on block copolymers and on host-guest random copolymers.
(8) The judge’s order to close the case came two weeks before US President Barack Obama is to be guest of honour at India’s Republic Day celebrations on 26 January.
(9) Last month, Black Lives Matter Toronto staged a sit-in during the city’s gay pride march, which the group had been invited to join as an honored guest.
(10) I will not find out the charge until I go to trial, so I just do not know.” Fowle, a 56-year-old equipment operator for the city of Moraine, Ohio, said he was originally detained at a large tourist hotel in Pyongyang and later moved to what he described as a suite-style room in a guest house, which he did not name.
(11) Having a British shoe designer to work with "felt like a really nice connection because we are opening in London," said Tom Mora, head of women's design, as a scrum of guests jostled for a better Instagram shot of the models behind him.
(12) Eighty six of 106 (81%) guests attending a party were followed up after an outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni enterocolitis.
(13) The official guest list for Friday’s anniversary event included senior government, party and military officials, but not Kim, whose weight gain in recent months has been blamed on a liking for rich food and attempts to strengthen his physical resemblance to his grandfather and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung.
(14) Sanitary measures including toilet hygiene and boiling milk and water were recommended to avoid illness, and the guests departed.
(15) Saakashvili, a studio guest on CNN, said that it would be wrong to underestimate Ukraine’s military strength, adding that its officer corps was of a high calibre and that a “considerable chunk” of Russian officers were ethnically Ukrainian.
(16) As there was little doubt, among Arab observers and commentators, that Bourguiba, the seasoned politician, knew perfectly well what he was doing – that this was the best way to offend his hot-blooded guest.
(17) "There was clearly inappropriate behaviour by some of the other guests and I deeply regret that this happened.
(18) He did so, the judges asserted, because he was facing related charges in another case involving accusations that he paid for sex with an underage prostitute who was also a "bunga bunga" guest.
(19) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
(20) The remaining 25,500 tickets will be allocated to sponsors, corporate hospitality, broadcasters, Uefa guests, national associations and local organisers.
Sojourn
Definition:
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.
Example Sentences:
(1) In comparative studies on some treatment-criteria of patients of a dermatological children-ward between 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1977 we found a tendency to increased out-patient-treatment, a reduction in period of clinical sojourn and a significant increase in patients drug consumption.
(2) The importance of including highaltitude pulmonary edema in the differential diagnosis of any patient who is admitted with coma after a sojourn at high altitude is stressed.
(3) With the He-N2-O2 mixture, the cats survived until the end of the sojourn at 101 ATA, during which no hyperbaric tremor was detected from EMG tracings, and EEG signs of HPNS were weak or absent.
(4) The average duration of the sojourn of the contact immigrants in the endemic environment is the same as that of the whole group.
(5) Orthostatic tolerance was measured in 20 lowlander Indian soldiers (sojourners) by recording responses of heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP) and mean skin temperature (Tsk) to 70 degrees head-up passive tilt, initially at Delhi (260 m altitude) and thereafter at 3500 m at weekly intervals for 3 weeks.
(6) The circulatory levels of T4, T3, rT3, TSH as well as TSH response to TRH, thyroid hormone binding proteins and T3 concentration of erythrocytes were studied in (i) healthy euthyroid sea level residents (SLR) at sea level, (ii) during three weeks of stay of SLR at an altitude of 3500 m (sojourners, SJ), (iii) SLR staying at high altitude (HA) for 3 months to 10 years (acclimatised low landers.
(7) However, hydrocortisone interferes with the release of newly formed monocytes from the bone marrow, resulting in a prolonged sojourn of these cells in this compartment.
(8) The number of two-year sojourns in a hospital and other data are reported on the basis of an evaluation of the signature ledges of the clinical histories in the district Dresden.
(9) However, during the recovery from this hypoxic sojourn, the rats born in hypoxia were significantly more reactive to acute lung hypoxia than all other groups of rats studied.
(10) In AL also there was a preponderance of sympathetic activity, though of relatively lesser magnitude than that seen in sojourners.
(11) After graduation, he spent time in the US working for campaigning and community-organising groups – including Sojourners, a famous church-based organisation rooted in Washington DC and largely focused on inner-city poverty.
(12) The tests were conducted before (LA1) and after (LA2) a 3-wk sojourn (HA1, HA2, HA3) at 3,650 m on the Monte Rosa.
(13) At high [ACh], bursts were defined so that they primarily reflect sojourns in activatable states.
(14) We have extended existing theory to multichannel systems by applying results from point process theory to derive some distributional properties of the various types of sojourn time that occur when a given number of channels are open in a system containing a specified number of independent channels in equilibrium.
(15) The results of this study show that partial carbonic anhydrase inhibition in individuals sojourning to very high altitude produces a further base deficit and a metabolic acidosis, stimulates ventilation, and may impair maximum exercise performance.
(16) The average age of the immigrants is 56 years and 31 years is the average duration of the sojourn in the endemic foci.
(17) These kinetic studies indicate that immigrant host cells require sojourn within the foreign thymus environment before they express the T-cell marker.
(18) It might be a quartet of north European conservatives, but in Brussels the Swedish sojourn has already been dubbed an Anglo-German summit focused on a central question – what to do about Jean-Claude Juncker.
(19) Over 2-week northern sojourn, energy expenditures as measured by a Kofranyi-Michaelis respirometer and diary observation averaged 3248 kcal (13.6 MJ) day-1, with a small (152 kcal (633 kJ)) positive daily energy balance.
(20) The same subjects were studied again after 10 days' sojourn at sea level in Lima at 150 m altitude.