How to Use in limbo in a Sentence

in limbo

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Definition of in limbonext
  • They were housed and fed, but their lives were still in limbo.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2023
  • The series was one of two in limbo at ABC over the summer.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2023
  • That flight and the August mission to the space station are now in limbo.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • The fate of the legislation had been in limbo for weeks.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 8 May 2023
  • The plan to erase student loans, first announced last year, had been in limbo for months.
    — Valeria Olivares, Dallas News, 30 June 2023
  • The bad news is that the mission is currently in limbo.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 26 July 2024
  • The coalition couldn’t either, leaving the future of the park in limbo.
    — Eric Guzmán, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2024
  • While the Rio is in limbo, downtown Overland Park grows around it.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2024
  • The Liberty trailed by one entering the fourth with the game in limbo.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 5 June 2024
  • After their week of working and bonding, though, the project was in limbo for awhile.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Feb. 2024
  • That case is still in limbo, as the Fifth Circuit Court has yet to issue a ruling.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But a May strike would put the remainder of this spring’s preplanned FYC events in limbo.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 1 May 2023
  • Coleman has asked for quick action, as students are in limbo for the fall.
    — al, 16 Feb. 2023
  • These requests come as the potential sale of the team remains in limbo.
    — Andrew Golden, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Most refugees remain in limbo, with no legal status and nowhere else to go.
    — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
  • It’s been six years since Mack’s death, and the documentary that Toney started is in limbo.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The high-stakes showdown could land the parties in court and keep the outcome of the NBA’s broadcast rights in limbo for the foreseeable future.
    — Ben Strauss, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
  • As the city awaits a final decision, short-term rentals in New Orleans have been left in limbo.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Some recent transmission projects have been stuck in limbo for close to two decades.
    — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 19 May 2024
  • The Supreme Court may take up the case next, meaning the drug’s fate is still in limbo and no one knows exactly how access to it could change in the future.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The move left its archive, valued at $47 million, in limbo.
    — Janelle Harris Dixon, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
  • There was then an amendment to the motion, and the language and status of the letter is still in limbo, per insiders.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Their spouses have been unable to move into new jobs and their children are in limbo as the school year begins.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Because Fischer's case is in limbo, he has not been tried yet.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Meyer Burger’s decision to shut its plant in Freiberg has left as many as 500 jobs in limbo.
    — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The decision puts the future of the project, already more than six years in the making, in limbo, as the church evaluates how best to move forward.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024
  • That mostly speaks to bygone regimes and five or six years of Henry’s prime being wasted in limbo.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2024
  • That leaves Oregon State and Washington State in limbo.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The move sparked outrage from Hollywood’s producer community and has left Haynes and his collaborators in limbo.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2024
  • But a number of factors, namely the loss of revenue due to the growing popularity of cord-cutting and explosive growth of streaming services, led to Diamond declaring bankruptcy and putting contracts with a number of MLB teams in limbo.
    — Andrew Wagner, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024

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