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.
  • First of all, the Democrats stood up and did dilatory actions, asked to adjourn.
    — CBS News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • 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 ended the day voting to adjourn until Friday.
    — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • The meeting adjourned after about an hour, and staff started taking down the tables and clearing the room.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
  • At the courthouse, Underwood announced that the court was adjourned.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The House is currently in recess, and the Senate is slated to adjourn as well later this month.
    — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 2 May 2023
  • Before deciding on a fourth round of voting, the House decided to adjourn for the evening.
    — Jacob Scholl, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
  • But the Senate adjourned without taking up the bill, effectively killing it for the year.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Crestfallen, McCarthy marched back to his seat, and McHenry called for the chamber to adjourn.
    — Catie Edmondson, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The House has voted on party lines to adjourn until 10 p.m. Friday.
    — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2023
  • After the House session adjourned Monday, Jones posted a video of people in the gallery who were chanting.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Chair brings meeting to order, then abruptly moves to adjourn.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The decision to adjourn and resume later came on the second day of the pre-trial hearing.
    — Matt Stahl | Mstahl@al.com, al, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Following the 13th vote, the House voted to adjourn until 10 p.m. ET Friday.
    — Kyle Morris, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The Senate had already adjourned with a similar condition at the end of last week.
    — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Not long after the group entered the meeting room following the rally at the courthouse, the meeting was adjourned.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The legislative session is scheduled to adjourn in mid-April.
    — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • House members adjourned the session — on the first day — after passing their plan.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 26 June 2023
  • After this, the House voted to adjourn until Wednesday.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The hearing adjourned Tuesday afternoon, with one more witness to be heard on Aug. 18.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The House then voted 58-50 to approve the school funding before adjourning for summer break.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2023
  • The General Assembly adjourned Feb. 25 without a budget, and the impasse stretched past the start of the new fiscal year on July 1.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The House adjourned Tuesday night with another Speaker’s vote planned for 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
    — TIME, 17 Oct. 2023

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