purgatory

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times

The argument for purgatory “works” only for Catholics, and the argument from the few passages in the Bible that seem to imply it are pretty thin.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

A moral universe without purgatory would be a thin, desiccated place: metaphysical reality flattened to nothing more than God and the individual soul that must, down the wearisome road, face some grim and final judgment.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Dodgers rescued him from purgatory in Anaheim and surrounded him with a star-studded roster, and now he makes more money from pitching products than pitching baseballs.

From Los Angeles Times