purgatory

Example Sentences

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Jefferson is confined to liquids, sentenced to a kind of culinary purgatory.

From Salon

He said that his family feel "left in the lurch" and described the experience like being in "purgatory".

From BBC

So we were basically in production purgatory,” she adds.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s part of her that was desperate to be released from this awful, punishing purgatory that she’s in and she needs an out.

From Los Angeles Times

Except that purgatory belongs to a cosmology fitted to human experience.

From The Wall Street Journal