How to Use adjourn in a Sentence

adjourn

verb
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  • The chairperson has adjourned the meeting.
  • Congress will not adjourn until the budget has been completed.
  • The meeting adjourned at 4:00.
  • Court is adjourned until 10:00 tomorrow.
  • Congress will adjourn for the year on Dec. 10 and the Senate on Dec. 18.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Schumer said the Senate will not adjourn until the bill is passed.
    — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 5 Mar. 2021
  • By the time the judge adjourned the court, Bryan was disconsolate.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • With the Legislature scheduled to adjourn for the year in two weeks, the time to act is short.
    — David Donovan, New York Daily News, 22 May 2024
  • The House will adjourn Dec. 10; the Senate adjourns Dec. 18.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 17 Nov. 2020
  • First of all, the Democrats stood up and did dilatory actions, asked to adjourn.
    — CBS News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Both the House and Senate were forced to adjourn and will not return to the Capitol until at least April 20.
    — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The House adjourned before taking up the bills, which then could not be voted on in the Senate.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2024
  • With him out of the way, the Senate quickly got back on track and moved through dozens of bills before adjourning for the year.
    — CBS News, 1 July 2019
  • The case came up for hearing Thursday but the court has adjourned the next hearing for July 16.
    — Nyay Bhushan, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2018
  • The board voted 4-2 to adjourn even though there were still several items on the agenda.
    — Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The House is now voting to adjourn until Monday at noon.
    — Eliza Collins, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The House was not supposed to adjourn for the midterms until after the first two weeks of October.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
  • His bail has been extended, and the case has been adjourned until next month.
    — Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The House ended the day voting to adjourn until Friday.
    — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Greene filed a motion to adjourn the House Wednesday in an effort to delay passage of the bill.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2021
  • After the Getty editor left the stand and the lawyers huddled at the bench with the judge, Burke announced that the trial was adjourned for the day.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The Senate adjourned today in a pro forma and will gavel back in on April 16.
    — Lauren Peller, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The hearing has adjourned for today and will start again Friday.
    — Sergey Gudkov and Anna Chernova, CNN, 18 July 2024
  • The Senate, which has adjourned until Jan. 3, will take up the appointment next year.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Phelan and the House, meanwhile, adopted the plan Abbott outlined and adjourned on the first day of the special session.
    — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 27 June 2023
  • Applause broke out in the audience as the court adjourned, while the defendants embraced each other and sang the hymn of the army.
    — Washington Post, 23 May 2018
  • Court was adjourned after Stines entered a not-guilty plea.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Peck was the only witness (of three) to make it to the stand before the court adjourned for the day, pushing the hearing into a second day.
    — Madeleine Fernando, Billboard, 17 June 2019
  • The trial was adjourned on Tuesday after only a very brief hearing as Yoon declined to attend.
    — Beth Greenfield, Fortune Asia, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Secretary Simon presided over the House’s initial business, but ruled there weren’t enough members present and adjourned.
    — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2025

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