Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: adjourned
IPA transcription: [ədʒ'ɝnd]
Usage examples
  • Seven hundred dollars was subscribed before the meeting adjourned.
  • General Ewing made another extemporaneous address, which he read from manuscript, and we adjourned for dinner.
  • Begbie adjourned the court with the pious wish that the murderer should go out and cut the throats of the jury.
  • On the 3rd of March, the day before the Legislature adjourned, Mr. Lincoln caused to be entered upon its records a paper which excited but little interest at the time, but which will probably be remembered long after the good and evil actions of the Vandalia Assembly have faded away from the minds of men.