How to Use liminal in a Sentence

liminal

adjective

• The night sky does have its own dazzling beauty, as do the liminal times of dawn and dusk.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 29 Mar. 2022
• Toward the book’s end, Smita is back in the liminal space of the airport, but changed.
  — Anri Wheeler, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• For Iowa, the team and the state, Clark’s maybe-final season exists in a kind of liminal space.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• For the Brexit-brigade, the longer this liminal space exists the better.
  — Samuel Earle, New Republic, 14 Dec. 2017
• The closing of a letter suits the liminal space of the benediction.
  — Julia Cho, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2024
• The hurry-up-and-wait nature of the search left the climbers’ friends and family in an odd, liminal space.
  — Matt Skenazy, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
• Or that the snowed-in Overlook was also a liminal space?
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2024
• Or is the Cradle some liminal space where time is a flat circle — oh wait, wrong show.
  — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2018
• Middle age is a liminal space for women in any era, but even more so for a Merovingian.
  — Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• In 1956, a young woman in a white pillbox hat would not have talked about liminal boundaries.
  — Jennifer Reese, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• It’s a book that is both timeless and very much of this moment too — existing in a liminal space.
  — Michele Filgate, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022
• The stage is bare, and the oligarch, who played an instrumental role in Vladimir Putin’s rise to power, speaks to us from a liminal space.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2024
• For months my editor and I were locked alone in a room trying to craft the unusual tone, the liminal space in which the film exists.
  — Andrew Haigh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• There was some sense of safety in just sitting with myself and my thoughts in the neutral, liminal space of a waiting room.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
• The arrival of Shmita invites us to pause a while longer, rather than to rush through this liminal period to get to what comes next.
  — Jacob Gurvis, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• Prepare for the Sagittarius moon’s liminal space to hang you up.
  — USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
• In the book, the narrator visits with 16-year-old Nikolai in a liminal world of Li’s creation, somewhere between the realms of the living and the dead.
  — Lucy Feldman, Time, 22 Nov. 2019
• Dusk is neither day nor night but a liminal space, at once slow motion and fast changing.
  — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2020
• Not knowing where to store them, people put urns in closets, garages, and in storage — liminal spaces that place the dead out of sight and out of mind.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2 Mar. 2018
• More than anything, kimchi is a reminder of the passage of time, that liminal space between death and (new) life.
  — Eric Kim, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
• The Assembly member finds herself in a bit of a liminal space now, with more than six months to go until the election.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
• Magic is the base reality, and the reader is plunged at once into a murky liminal space of blood, smoke and snakes.
  — David Wright, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• These queens have all continued the legacy of drag performance at the liminal margins of the city, where new arrivals take up the mantle of the craft.
  — Devin Antheus, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2019
• There is an interesting liminal space at the edges of what nuclei can bear, Nazarewicz notes.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• Mann thinks this could be a liminal moment for those in attendance.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
• In this poem, the speaker occupies the liminal space of transition, where the child and the parents begin to switch roles.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Over the course of the last two years, airports have gone from bustling hubs to liminal spaces to uneasy territory.
  — Laura Reilly, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2021
• Even in those liminal zones, humans still owe a healthy measure of deference to wildlife.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2022
• Eliminating these liminal spaces would decrease the number of interior walls and allow for more condensed homes, the survey found.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 16 July 2024
• The Futures tour sometimes felt like a circle of hell, but in practical terms it’s better understood as purgatory: a liminal space that exists only to be got out of as quickly as possible.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 8 July 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024