ADJOURN in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of ADJOURN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
adjourn
 v.  break from a meeting or gathering
 v.  close at the end of a session
Classic Sentence:
1  So it was an unusually lively meeting, and did not adjourn till a late hour, when it broke up with three shrill cheers for the new member.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
2  Let us adjourn to the house of the Chief of Police.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
3  This body passed a resolution to adjourn for the purpose of visiting Tuskegee.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
4  Selden, stumbling on a chance acquaintance, had dined with him, and adjourned, still in his company, to the brightly lit Promenade, where a line of crowded stands commanded the glittering darkness of the waters.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
5  The heap being in due course wiped out, Lord Hubert rose with a shrug, and joining Selden, adjourned with him to the deserted terrace of the club.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
6  They thrust him into a cell room, where other prisoners were waiting; and as soon as court had adjourned they led him down with them into the "Black Maria," and drove him away.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  Miss Kate did know several new games, and as the girls would not, and the boys could not, eat any more, they all adjourned to the drawing room to play Rig-marole.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
8  We dined on these occasions in the kitchen, and adjourned, for the nuts and oranges and apples to the parlor; which was a change very like Joe's change from his working-clothes to his Sunday dress.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
9  Then they adjourned to the drawing-room.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
10  "I suppose it would be profanation to eat anything in this spick-and-span bower, so as I'm tremendously hungry, I propose an adjournment," he added presently.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
11  Planting himself before his dispatch-box, he rubbed his hands with a satisfaction worthy of an incorruptible rural magistrate when adjourning for luncheon; after which he extracted from the receptacle a bundle of papers.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  Why don't we adjourn to the local hostelry?
2  'In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, 'I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies--' .
3  "In that case," said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, "I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies -- " .
4  I suggest we adjourn to the bar for a drink.
5  The trial was adjourned following the presentation of new evidence to the court.
6  The trial was adjourned for a week/until the following week.
7  Congress has adjourned for the November elections.
8  When dinner was over, we adjourned to the sitting room.
9  The judge adjourned the hearing until next Tuesday.
10  The senate adjourned for the summer.
11  The meeting adjourned for a week.
12  The meeting adjourned till five o'clock.
13  The defence attorney requested an adjournment.
14  The judge granted us a short adjournment.