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• Whoever bends lowest will win the limbo tournament.From the entry lowest
• He slithers like a limbo dancer under alder thickets girding the cliff faces.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic. From the entry gird
• Choose inexpensive “real” locations over limbo sets with limited props and borrowed furniture.2012, Nick Iuppa, Terry Borst, Story and Simulations for Serious Games: Tales from the Trenches, page 180. From the entry limbo set
• Many more have spent at least that time in the limbo we have termed "missing in action."1971 March 23, Joan Vinson (witness), “Statement of Joan Vinson, National Coordinator, National League of Families of American Prisoners…. From the entry missing in action
• Teng himself, now in his midseventies, had moved in and out of limbo several times.1958, Harold Robert Isaacs, Scratches on Our Minds: American Views of China and India. From the entry midseventies
• A cluster of mature gumbo limbos is planted between Bastion 1 and the small magazine, overarching the brick walkway.2011, Susan L. Hitchcock, Dry Tortugas National Park, Garden Key, Cultural Landscape Report. From the entry gumbo limbo
• It was the layback, a casual declaration of civil disobedience in the pope's living room, our own aquatic limbo act.2001, Jason Borte, surfline.com http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/surfaz.cfm?id=847. From the entry pope's living room
• I let my feet fall from under me, throwing my legs forward, praying for some momentum, ducking and sliding, a mad limbo to freedom.2014, Jonathan Wood, No Hero, Titan Books, →ISBN. From the entry clothesline
• The room existed only as a still photograph, and the Actor playing old Adolf was in fact walking around on a limbo set.2013, Robert Koster, The Budget Book for Film and Television, page 196. From the entry limbo set
• To be disowned publicly is to be cut off from this, to be placed in a limbo of homelessness, clanlessness, to become nothing.2004, Michael Hanne, Creativity in exile, page 23. From the entry clanlessness
• The reduction of aristocratic power had been achieved only at the cost of conciliating the Melvillians in the Scottish Church and leaving episcopacy in limbo.1998, Roger Lockyer, “King of Scotland”, in James VI and I (Profiles in Power), Harlow, Essex: Addison Wesley Longman Limited, →ISBN, page…. From the entry Melvillian
• If only the basilect is a true creole, then the mesolect is relegated to limbo -- not a creole, certainly not a standard.1996, James E. Alatis, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, →ISBN. From the entry basilect
• A veil of timelessness has been slipped across, encapsulating each scene in a soft vacuum and sucking the spectator into a state of limbo.1975, Documenta, Art International 1975-02-20: Volume 19, Issue 2, Art International, page 34. From the entry superinstantaneous
• The lower half of a duplex apartment on a shabby Montreal street, dark as limbo, jerry-built fifty years ago and going off keel ever since.1960, Brian Moore, chapter 1, in The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 4. From the entry off keel

Meaning of limbo

1. noun A speculative place or state, thought possibly to be on the edge of the bottomless pit of Hell, where the souls of innocent deceased people might exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, specifically those of the saints who died before the advent of Jesus Christ (who occupy the limbo patrum or limbo of the patriarchs or fathers) and those of unbaptized infants (who occupy the limbo infantum or limbo of the infants); (countable) the possible place where each category of souls might exist, regarded separately.
2. noun Chiefly preceded by in: any in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion which results in deadlock, delay, or some other unresolved status.
3. noun Jail, prison; (countable) a jail cell or lockup.

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Questions about limbo in a sentence

How do you use limbo in a sentence?

Limbo is used as a noun and verb. For example: “My passport application has been stuck in bureaucratic limbo for two weeks.”

What is a short sentence with limbo?

“Whoever bends lowest will win the limbo tournament.”

What does limbo mean?

Limbo means a speculative place or state, thought possibly to be on the edge of the bottomless pit of Hell, where the souls of innocent deceased people might exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, specifically those of the saints who died before the advent of Jesus Christ (who occupy the limbo patrum or limbo of the patriarchs or fathers) and those of unbaptized infants (who occupy the limbo infantum or limbo of the infants); (countable) the possible place where each category of souls might exist, regarded separately.