How to Use purgatory in a Sentence

purgatory

noun

• The marathons were jokingly referred to as one-day purgatories.
• Kevin Durant left the paradise of the Warriors for the purgatory of the Nets.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Worried, Claudia stayed in the camp with Joseph, in purgatory once more.
  — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• For weeks, people in Ukraine, and some people in Russia, have been stuck in the purgatory of doublethink.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022
• For Cohen, though, the place was not paradise but purgatory.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• For a team seemingly stuck in NFL purgatory — too good to be bad, too bad to be good — the Steelers never are boring.
  — Will Graves, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024
• The Patriots, meanwhile, got the right guy on their first try, with just one season of QB purgatory after Brady left.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• After about a month in purgatory, the panel decided to give Butler the green light.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Nov. 2021
• Those slow-building songs that land in midtempo purgatory and blast out a checklist of cliches: Hope?
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 22 May 2022
• Above the altar hangs a painting depicting the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child saving souls from purgatory.
  — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
• During the last few months, my closet has been in fashion purgatory.
  — Maria Santa Poggi, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2022
• And one of the biggest, top-of-mind goals for the team was to bring back the old browser games that have languished in digital purgatory since Adobe stopped supporting Flash in 2020.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 July 2023
• Meanwhile, his time in legal purgatory has been far from smooth.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2023
• Not only two weeks of first-team practice snaps while Rodgers sits to the side in his 10-day purgatory, but also at least one game against the Kansas City Chiefs this weekend.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2021
• But until the Vikings figure out how to resolve the quarterback dilemma, the team will remain in the NFL’s version of purgatory.
  — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• For so long, Stafford had been sentenced to suffer in football purgatory, a place where time keeps passing and the losses keep piling up.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
• Germans, Europeans in general, and the markets will be keen to avoid that sort of purgatory this time round.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2021
• Now, with criminal charges off the table for Uber, Vasquez sat in legal purgatory alone.
  — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024