How to Use adjourn in a Sentence

adjourn

verb

• 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
• The band then played some more, and the Moodies adjourned to the pub, seeing what the rest of the world would soon find out, Edge said.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Unable to muster a quorum, Tate adjourned the House early, on Dec. 19.
  — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 10 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Self then quickly tapped his gavel and adjourned the meeting.
  — Samantha Riedel, Them, 12 Mar. 2025
• An inquest into their death has been adjourned until June.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2025