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

I’ve never once taken it for granted, especially as friends and family members have lived for decades in a terrible limbo over their legal status.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 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

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

It was power, current, force, direction, a pulseless world-stream steady in limbo.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White