limbo in English

noun
1
(in some Christian beliefs) the supposed abode of the souls of unbaptized infants, and of the just who died before Christ's coming.
She wore a black bonnet to match her dress and gloves; to Jeremiah she looked like an engraving he'd once seen of a restless soul in limbo .
2
an uncertain period of awaiting a decision or resolution; an intermediate state or condition.
the fate of the Contras is now in limbo
verb
1
perform the limbo.
While listening to calypso music, many of those being entertained like to dance the limbo , a dance very popular among Grenadian Americans.

Use "limbo" in a sentence

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1. Obamacare’s limbo Befuddles taxpayers

2. To this scenario Catholicism adds Limbo and purgatory.

3. Limbo is one such theory.

4. We floated on as if in a timeless limbo.

5. Limbo was copied from Greek mythology.

6. Do they wander for ever in limbo?

7. So these three counties are in Limbo.

8. I felt as if I was in limbo.

9. Pass through the limbo, jump out the window.

10. BORDER CRISIS: LAND Along RIO GRANDE RIVER IN LIMBO

11. An Amalgamationist in Limbo for the Second Time

12. 'Cause we're in legal limbo and I just can't...

13. They - and the enterprises concerned - are now in limbo.

14. Neither party accepted her, so she was in limbo.

15. Aromatise (Azralon) Limbo - 60 Blood Elf Vengeance Demon Hunter, 221 ilvl

16. Limbo, the direct marketing agency, has appointed Linda Rost deputy managing director.

17. With regard to Limbo, Rome’s Cardinal Ratzinger admits that it is “only a theological hypothesis.”

18. Well, how else are we ever going to get out of this limbo?

19. The project must remain in limbo until the committee makes its decision.

20. I'm in limbo now until I know whether I've got the job.

21. Whether a family gathering, social event or business outing, we at Limbo Charters …

22. Historically, belief in Limbo resulted from 12th-century theological debates relative to purgatory.

23. "Bardo" means limbo, a liminal place, between worlds, between lives

24. Poindexter resigned; and North went into a bizarre media limbo reserved for bogus patriots.

25. Even graduation remains in limbo as closure to their high school years Bookended by tragedies

26. If there is no agreement to amend it, Nepal will plunge into legal limbo.

27. Even graduation remains in limbo as closure to their high school years Bookended by tragedies

28. Our plans for buying a flat in Spain are in limbo at the moment.

29. Even graduation remains in limbo as closure to their high school years Bookended by tragedies

30. At Limbo Charters, we are ready to sweep you away for a day of leisure and relaxation

31. Anole was also taken into Limbo where the New X-Men found and saved Illyana Rasputin

32. The firefighters' fate was in limbo after San Francisco assumed control of the island this month.

33. He was sick, he complained that he had hated him gas, after putting her relegate to limbo.

34. His life seemed stuck in limbo; he could not go forward and he could not go back.

35. Be that as it may, Limbo is accepted by devout Catholics in place after place throughout the earth.

36. Cataclysmic Continuum is a Warframe Augment Mod for Limbo that extends Cataclysm's duration for every enemy killed inside it

37. From this nucleus, it swiftly spread throughout his head and trunk, leaving only his limbs in an unfeeling limbo.

38. Under the restrictive 2012 Law on Associations, Algerian authorities have broad discretion to withhold legal recognition from nongovernmental associations, keeping them in legal limbo.

39. 2 days ago · The Broncos are in a weird limbo currently at the QB spot with Drew Lock

40. R/Anger: Anger, an affliction that is often misunderstood, leaves those who suffer from it in a limbo of social unacceptance

41. I am not alone in this stage of limbo, for none of the other ordinary members of the committee knows either.

42. Synonyms for in Abeyance include suspended, pending, inoperative, withdrawn, withheld, on ice, in limbo, in remission, out of action and unresolved

43. Nomatterhow ethereal they may seem, they do not exist in a timeless limbo but possess determinate antecedents in time and space.

44. He was in that phantasmagoric limbo of The Twilight Zone, in "that gray area where pain Coexists with daily life."

45. We're in limbo at the moment because we've finished our work in this country and now we're waiting for our next contract.

46. Alternately mawkish and grisly, The Lovely Bones bounces back and forth between Susie's dreamily surreal limbo and the mundane miseries of life on earth.

47. You guys voted overwhelmingly in favour of seeing this video next, so here it is: the origin story of Limbo, Arnt Jensen, and Playdead Studio! Hope you enjoy

48. Some other myths alien to Christianity that also gradually developed were: the inherent immortality of the human soul, purgatory, Limbo, and eternal torment in hellfire.

49. The Greeks even invented a Limbo, the abode of children who had died in infancy, and a Purgatory, where a certain mild chastisement purified souls.”

50. (How long can a society hang in a "Bonapartist" limbo, with neither capitaist nor proletarian class exercising dictatorship in the modern world?)Kasama