How to Use limbo in a Sentence

limbo

noun
  • Japan is caught in the very center of this limbo.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • In some ways, this year felt like limbo to investors.
    — Drew O'Connor, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The singer hovers in a genre limbo.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
  • That leaves Hooker in a sort of limbo.
    — Cecil Merkerson, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Lozano’s camp remains in limbo.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • Most of them have been sleeping in tents for months, living in limbo.
    — ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • That means his earnings are locked in the same limbo as his customers’.
    — Carlos Mureithi, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The mixed messaging has left projects in limbo.
    — Kelly Werthmann, CBS News, 7 May 2026
  • And if both sides dig their heels in, Larkin wouldn’t be the only one left in limbo.
    — Max Bultman, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • Between those two ifs is the corrosive limbo of the present.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Many of these immigrants will be left in legal limbo.
    — Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Four weeks in, the college softball season has reached its limbo stage.
    — Molly Keshin, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Since then, the state has been caught in political limbo.
    — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Partake in bags, log-rolling, hula hooping, the limbo and tug-o-war.
    — Cole Premo, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • The legal shift has left many families in limbo.
    — Joan Murray, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • That means people spend years — and sometimes decades — stuck in legal limbo.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
  • His case hangs in limbo without a judge's decision.
    — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The fate of Spirit Airlines has been in limbo for months.
    — Penny Kmitt, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • While that process runs, patients are in coverage limbo.
    — Ganesh Padmanabhan, Fortune, 19 June 2026
  • After finishing their drinks, the ladies joined in on a nearby game of limbo.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
  • There would then be further steps in place to ensure laborers are not left in a state of limbo.
    — Tiago Ventura, Time, 10 June 2026
  • For just a few days, the special teams unit was in real limbo in Westwood.
    — Benjamin Royer, Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • As a result, the future of the iconic show has entered limbo.
    — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • Now that the season is over, Robertson, like many Leafs, is in limbo.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The setting, a kind of low-rent limbo, isn’t meant to be realistic.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • His status for Friday's game against Paraguay is still in limbo.
    — Becky Sullivan, NPR, 7 June 2026
  • Without them, promising pilots get stuck in limbo.
    — Aleksandra Bal, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • But all too often, these AI projects get stuck in proof-of-concept limbo.
    — Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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