What is "adjourns"

Usage examples of "adjourns".

Everyone adjourns to the back room where the kosher caterers have set up lunch.

The fool does so, his money is examined and returned to him, his candidacy is unanimously approved with handshakes, and the session rapidly adjourns on promises that formal agreements will be signed with him in a few days.

Mackintosh removes his robes, slips on his shoes and adjourns to his favourite pub, away from the prying eyes of any students who might wish to question his inspirational words.

In any case I shall probably be very late myselfI have to attend a committee meeting at the golf club, and that always adjourns to the bar and goes on for hours.

So when the gendarmes pick the fat young doll off of Tobias and take a few pounds of rods off of Tobias, too, so he is finally able to get back on his pins and stand there, Judge Rascover adjourns court, and takes Tobias into his private room and has a talk with him, and the chances are Tobias tells him the truth, for the next thing anybody knows Tobias is walking away as free as the little birdies in the trees, except that he has the fat young doll clinging to him like a porous plaster, so maybe Tobias is not so free, at that.