How to Use limbo in a Sentence

limbo

noun

• Now that deal in limbo with the parties scrambling for new language to present to a judge in a month.
  — ABC News, 30 July 2023
• That means his earnings are locked in the same limbo as his customers’.
  — Carlos Mureithi, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2023
• Life, or what’s left of it, remains stuck in the limbo created by the blast last April.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• For now, though, the situation between the U.S. and Iran is stuck in a kind of limbo.
  — Time, 7 Aug. 2023
• Lilley was alarmed at the prospect of the Fangs seeking refuge there, fearing that they might get stuck in limbo.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2023
• Of course, there’s still a near-total ban looming over the state in the form of a pre-Roe law that’s locked up in legal limbo.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2022
• Majors faces up to a year in jail if convicted on the charges, and the future of his career hangs in limbo.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
• The move effectively froze the House and left the legislation in a state of limbo.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• The setting, a kind of low-rent limbo, isn’t meant to be realistic.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• The lawsuit sat in limbo for over a year; in the meantime, Locke was being treated for breast cancer.
  — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
• After finishing their drinks, the ladies joined in on a nearby game of limbo.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
• In the meantime, Bob and Susan’s child will be left in medical limbo.
  — Alphonse Provinziano, STAT, 12 June 2023
• The act would have helped those people stuck in legal limbo, and aided many more U.S. allies still trapped in Afghanistan.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2022
• Meanwhile, the rights to the group’s original three albums were stuck in legal limbo.
  — Robert Levine, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2022
• Another holdup: Grail has been stuck in legal limbo for two years.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• My friend told me that he had been fed up with living in limbo — he had not been put on trial or formally charged.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• The Afghan Adjustment Act would help tens of thousands of Afghans, who remain in legal limbo.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
• As of this writing, the financial world was in a state of limbo, waiting to see how the crisis at Credit Suisse plays out.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
• Most of his eleven-month stint was spent in a will-he-won’t-he limbo of Elon Musk buying Twitter, which kept him from getting any real work done.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2023
• Like so many striking writers, Benjamin left two projects in a state of limbo last week when the strike came down, one for Amazon and one for Netflix.
  — William Earl, Variety, 8 May 2023
• Over the last two weeks, the Bengals and Taylor have been in limbo waiting to see if Anarumo or Callahan would get head coach jobs elsewhere.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 14 Feb. 2023
• Instead, asylum seekers are being kept in a state of limbo.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• From that limbo, the music turns to delusion, decadence and fantasy.
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• In between the town hall and the announcement of layoffs last week, Vice employees had simply been waiting in limbo to hear their fate.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
• Next came the tour for that album, which edged Harvey further into creative limbo.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 11 July 2023
• For the moment, that leaves the future of the Title 42 restrictions — and the fate of thousands of migrants camped in Mexico just south of the United States — in legal limbo.
  — Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• And large upheavals can cause chaos for the people who remain, many of whom live in limbo whenever a fresh round of layoffs is rumored to be just over the horizon.
  — Matt Novak, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• Even those families who have been reunited in the U.S. face legal limbo.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2023
• But her upbeat attitude comes despite the future of her business hanging in limbo.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2024
• Melody accidentally burned herself and her family alive during a tenement fire many decades earlier, and so she’d been trapped in ghost limbo ever since.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024