purgatory

Example Sentences

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“Ghosts in the Machine” will take us up stairs, around pathways and into now-deserted zoo enclosures as we try to free a spirit from purgatory.

From Los Angeles Times

In a report Monday he said the potential coupling now sits in “deal purgatory.”

From Barron's

Never mind the state’s environmental laws that consign building projects to purgatory.

From The Wall Street Journal

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