limbo
Example Sentences
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In no time, there were conga lines and limbo contests, and by the wee hours, someone always ended up at the emergency room and at least one marriage was in peril.
Thousands of victims are still in limbo, trying to rebuild their homes and reassemble their lives while managing the stress of displacement, the cost of starting over and the loss of irreplaceable keepsakes.
From Los Angeles Times
“I’m in the exact same limbo as the community where I’m trying to help everyone move forward.”
From Los Angeles Times
Investigations tended to focus on high-profile men, spectacular falls from power and moments of reckoning, leaving less space for the quieter, ongoing realities of recovery, legal limbo and community response.
From Salon
The family of Natalie McNally have said they have been left in "limbo" after they were warned the trial into her murder may be delayed because of industrial action by barristers.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
