limbo

Example Sentences

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Hundreds of seafarers are calling for help to get home as food and fresh water start to run low after more than a month in limbo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Litigation and pressure from the industry and lawmakers delayed for decades the creation of the bulks list, leaving compounders in limbo on scores of substances, not just peptides.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

Willy’s world never comes into being onstage, and the rest of the cast seems to wander in the limbo that’s left behind.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

But six months on from that ceasefire agreement, Gaza's future is uncertain, stuck in a fractured limbo between war and peace.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

She was aghast that we had been in legal limbo for so long and thought that five years should have been plenty of time for my mother to get her act together.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter