How to Use purgatory in a Sentence

purgatory

noun

• The marathons were jokingly referred to as one-day purgatories.
• That’s what the whole concept of the show is about: that purgatory.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 8 July 2020
• Kevin Durant left the paradise of the Warriors for the purgatory of the Nets.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• As the weeks went on, the purgatory of Changing Lanes got worse.
  — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• And as his team was stuck in purgatory, the ledger hasn't looked so great lately.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2018
• Those of us in the gallery found ourselves in some version of that purgatory as well—at once drawn in and kept on the fringes.
  — Leslie Jamison, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2019
• The market is now in a sort of purgatory because the pandemic in the U.S. is over and not over at the same time.
  — Sami J. Karam, National Review, 18 Aug. 2021
• The Weeknd is dead, and his latest album, Dawn FM, is the sound of purgatory.
  — Charlie Harding, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2022
• Biden has argued for more than a decade that Afghanistan was a kind of purgatory for the United States.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• Trapped in nostalgic purgatory at the end of the world.
  — Jill Krajewski, Vulture, 24 May 2022
• The Colts’ only path out of QB purgatory may be to make a big play for Jackson.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• The Playhouse is doing God’s work here, in the service of a show set in jazz purgatory.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 June 2024
• That those of us not trapped in the hell of mourning the dead have been languishing in a purgatory of smaller griefs.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, Bon Appétit, 13 Apr. 2022
• But being stuck in a tiny hotel room for most of a year has verged on purgatory.
  — Emma Batha, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2022
• That’s adolescent purgatory, the likes of which would make Lizzie McGuire flee back to Rome.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 26 May 2020
• Read more More news to know now As Trump's trial nears an end, the Bidens prep for a month in legal purgatory.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
• The warmer air in the room keeps the bubble in a weird purgatory until air starts slowly seeping out of tiny holes in the frozen half of the bubble.
  — Mary Beth Griggs, The Verge, 18 June 2019
• Uvalde was — and has been, Medrano said — in a sort of purgatory ever since.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• Not bad for a franchise that not long ago looked to be stuck in passer purgatory.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
• Most of these have so far failed to make it to the screen and withered in development purgatory.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
• Worried, Claudia stayed in the camp with Joseph, in purgatory once more.
  — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2022
• Recent weeks have brought a new kind of purgatory for tourism workers in the region.
  — Brooks Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2020
• The biggest unknown is how long we will be left in purgatory.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2020
• For us, the ultimate purgatory for Vic is being handcuffed to a desk and having to wear a shirt and tie.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• For this alone, Uncle Jon will spend no time in purgatory.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2021
• Herzberg is gone, and Vasquez has faced five years of legal purgatory alone, with three more years of probation still in front of her.
  — WIRED, 28 July 2023
• Now, said stick is in stick purgatory, in the basement right next to Ray Cook the putter, very likely never to see the back side of a Titleist again.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 1 Dec. 2021
• This purgatory was on full display against Brazil—in 2014, too.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 2 July 2018
• He’s also been sent to the equivalent of purgatory by his British spy agency bosses, Slough House.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Aug. 2024
• Much like Tatum’s accent in the character, the movie proved hard to pin down and remained in development purgatory, never quite getting off the ground.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 27 July 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024