Example sentences for: limbo

How can you use “limbo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His most successful effort to date involves Richard Holbrooke, who has endured confirmation limbo for a full year.

  • Such is life in limbo.

  • The papers say that Wye is now in limbo until the outcome of the new elections, even though, the Journal reports, polls show 70 percent of Israelis support it.

  • The unconceived are like prisoners being held in a sort of limbo, unable to break through into the world of the living.

  • ' (It might not be inappropriate here to point out that, in addition to this British idiom, the only other major contribution made to culture by pay toilets was the invention, in Scotland, I understand, of limbo dancing.)


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