Sam BoalNew RepublicExamples of limbo in a Sentence
Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 22 May 2024
In the Chinese master filmmaker’s decades-spanning drama Caught by the Tides (Feng Liu Yi Dai), Zhao shimmies around a dance floor to pulsing EDM, unaware that the man in her life will soon leave town, dropping her into a 20-year romantic limbo.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
In an election held by the NLRB in December, workers voted 19 to 13 to unionize, but 55 ballots were challenged, leaving the results in limbo.
—Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
The future waits in limbo; simply getting through the day is drama enough.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 May 2024
These rulings and appeals sent cases back to state courts, often after long delays that left families in legal limbo.
—Fred Schulte | Kff Health News, ABC News, 11 May 2024
In perennial limbo, the expatriate is neither in her country nor a native of her adopted one.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2024
Celebration turns to silent despondency, as the movie’s rousing highs are replaced by a purgatorial limbo, as though time were standing still.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 9 May 2024
One way to see Gen Z’s relative limbo is by looking at their wage growth.
—Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 2 May 2024
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“Limbo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/limbo. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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limbo
1 of 2 noun
limbo
2 of 2 nounNoun
Middle English limbo "a place for souls," derived from Latin limbus (same meaning), from earlier limbus "border"
Noun
from the English of Trinidad and Barbados limbo "a dance that involves bending backwards under a pole," related to Jamaican English limba "to bend," from English limber "flexible"
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