How do you use Adjourn in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like recess or fold, plus the exact meaning.
Adjourn in a sentence
Related words
Adjourn meaning
- To postpone.
- To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
- To end or suspend an event.
Synonyms of Adjourn
Using Adjourn
- The main meaning on this page is: To postpone. | To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely. | To end or suspend an event.
- Useful related words include: recess, shut down, fold, close.
- In the example corpus, adjourn often appears in combinations such as: to adjourn, adjourn the, and adjourn.
Context around Adjourn
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Adjourn
- In this selection, "adjourn" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, parliament, stating and wednesday stand out and add context to how "adjourn" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include convene and adjourn parliament and and court to adjourn its sitting. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "adjourn" sits close to words such as abbotsford, adkins and adventist, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with adjourn
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lawmakers are scheduled to adjourn for the year on Thursday. (10 words)
Republicans voted to adjourn until 10 p.m. ET to try again. (12 words)
Opposition MPs join in support, prompting the Speaker to adjourn proceedings until noon. (13 words)
In his response, Hussaini agreed he was served the motion, but urged the court to adjourn its sitting to enable him respond to the motion, arguing that the matter was not ripe for hearing as he was just served with the application today (Tuesday). (44 words)
Some Democrats, meanwhile, were a bit miffed that two of their members, Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-CA) and Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) did not make the Wednesday evening vote on a motion to adjourn. (35 words)
He was first due to stand trial in September last year, however, Judge Ian Pringle KC was forced to adjourn the trial as no courtroom and no judge was free to hear the case. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Prince has the right to convene and adjourn parliament and, for serious reasons, to adjourn it for 3 months or to dissolve it.
Ann Ritchie, defending, rejected the motion to adjourn stating that the licensing matter is addressed in a statement of uncontroversial evidence.
But the support on that side of the room had deflated, and the opposition quashed the motion to adjourn by a comfortable margin.
Chisholm said while the court is required to proceed with sentencing “as soon as practicable,” it’s not uncommon for the court to adjourn to allow for more information to be brought forward.
In his response, Hussaini agreed he was served the motion, but urged the court to adjourn its sitting to enable him respond to the motion, arguing that the matter was not ripe for hearing as he was just served with the application today (Tuesday).
Lawmakers are hoping to adjourn Wednesday – though they will likely remain in session all week given the amount of work still to be done.
Lawmakers are scheduled to adjourn for the year on Thursday.
Opposition MPs join in support, prompting the Speaker to adjourn proceedings until noon.
Protem Speaker Yogesh Sagar went on to adjourn the House for 10 minutes.
Republicans voted to adjourn until 10 p.m. ET to try again.
Some Democrats, meanwhile, were a bit miffed that two of their members, Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-CA) and Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) did not make the Wednesday evening vote on a motion to adjourn.
When collation resumed by 6:00pm, the Presiding Officers after waiting for the arrival of more results decided to adjourn as no new results were coming in.
As a result, she preferred to adjourn sentencing on the damaged property offence until the report was completed, noting it may affect the sentencing outcome.
As soon as the House met, opposition members started raising slogans, forcing Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar to adjourn the House till 2 pm.
At Dubbo Local Court on Thursday, January 18, magistrate Gary Wilson agreed to an application by the defence to adjourn the case again until February 8 due to its seriousness.
He also to invoke his constitutional power to adjourn Congress to push through nominees while lawmakers were out of Washington, D.C., during the early months of the pandemic.
He told her: “I am going to adjourn this to see if anything can be salvaged from this wreckage.
He was first due to stand trial in September last year, however, Judge Ian Pringle KC was forced to adjourn the trial as no courtroom and no judge was free to hear the case.
However, the case came within the rules for admission to the commercial list and he was prepared to admit it and adjourn the matter to October.
Lawyers for Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, had asked Merchan to adjourn the New York trial indefinitely until Trump’s immunity claim in his Washington, D.C., election interference case is resolved.
Common combinations with adjourn
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to adjourn 68×
- adjourn the 33×
- and adjourn 6×
- adjourn for 6×
- adjourn to 5×
- adjourn both 3×
- adjourn and 3×
- may adjourn 3×
- adjourn by 2×
- adjourn proceedings 2×