Sentence examples for being in between from inspiring English sources

Grounded in social anthropology of Van Gennep [ 13] and later applied to modern societies by Turner [ 14] the concept of liminality refers to transition, outside the everyday environment, for a period where the participant lacks social status or position within a particular community or group – an intermediate stage of being "in between".

But being in between the two means it's not easy to categorise, right?

"We have to be more a part of what people are watching and reading instead of being in between what people are watching and reading," she told BusinessWeek in 2005.

Hannah Arendt wrote about this state of being in "Between Past and Future," describing the private citizens who had become members of the French Resistance: "He who joined the Resistance found himself. . . .

But being in between jobs has never been a barrier to appearing in the MediaGuardian 100 – just ask Dawn Airey – and he continues to cast a long shadow over the media industry.

"Words circulate," McElroy writes, "like thoughts, contagiously," and such words as "border" or "dream," along with ­images of partial immersion in water, remind us constantly of being in between.

Being in-between genders, Chaz said, was far more difficult than becoming a man.

I'm a little strapped for cash myself these days, being in-between jobs and all.

It's not a fear of flying but of being scared of connections, being lost in some empty terminal, of "being in-between things".

In his lecture, he described his theory of a "Third Culture," the idea that being in-between several cultures led to a hybrid, novel identity — in his case related to his experiences in both Iraqi and Finnish cultures.

It's the idea of being in-between days, or phases, of life.