limbo

How To Use limbo In A Sentence

• It's time for the Senate to release him from legal limbo and give his nomination a final vote by simple majority.
• He was left in limbo by Scottish Labour's Executive, which refused to endorse his candidacy until Fife police concluded their investigations into the case.
• At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven.
• I cared nothing for Evalie then, caught in that limbo which at once was ice and candent core of rage. Dwellers in the Mirage
• Another half-second and he would have found himself in limbo, lips dangling. PROSPECT HILL
• Petey and Carol and Lois would be sent into limbo for a little scare.
• In time, argues Winnicott, the transitional object is relegated to limbo, neither mourned nor forgotten, just losing its meaning.
• The U.N. refugee chief has called on countries to end the plight of some 12 million stateless people caught in what he described as "limbo," denied basic human rights because no country will grant them citizenship. The Seattle Times
• We're in limbo at the moment because we've finished our work in this country and now we're waiting for our next contract.
• Filling the role of Fiona Belli places the player in limbo between voyeur and subject, exploiter and exploited, violator and violable, and for most players, between masculine and feminine. Critique: Haunting Ground