purgatory
Example Sentences
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Helima Croft: We are in a cease-fire-with-no-oil purgatory.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
You can even rescue other canned beans from pantry purgatory: kidney, white, garbanzo, whatever you have on hand.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
Realism is achieved not through bare-bones scenic furniture but through the combustible relationships of characters who exist with one another in a purgatory of disillusionment.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Big picture: The job market is stuck in a purgatory of sorts — it’s not getting any better, but it’s also not getting worse.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026
The whole time I’ve been in Indiana, which is all my life— the purgatory years, I call them—we’ve apparently lived just eleven miles away from the highest point in the state.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
Vocabulary lists containing purgatory
Romeo and Juliet
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