Sentence examples for grim limbo from inspiring English sources
Over the two years since Hurricane Katrina hit, the shock of evacuation has hardened into the grim limbo of exile.
The aftermath of the ferry workers' strike which brought the French ferry port and the adjoining Channel Tunnel to a grinding, chaotic halt on Tuesday has continued to cause long queues - offering a second day of opportunity for some of the 3,000 migrants caught in Calais's grim limbo to try and board trucks heading for the UK.
And so Irish illegal immigrants continue in the same grim limbo they have inhabited since Sept. 11, 2001, a world marked by separation from family, even on holidays like Christmas, and a terror of deportation that led many of those interviewed to insist on anonymity.
The area is caught in a grim limbo between war and peace.
In terms of everyday knowledge on the gay scene, HIV exists somewhere in limbo between the grim tombstone adverts of the 80s, statistics that get bounced around annually from numerous health organisations and the raw realities of chemsex-fuelled bareback sessions.
Heavyweight is a grim tale about a boxer who dwells in the limbo land of "what could have been".
The unreality of the film set, "a half-world", Isherwood calls it, "a limbo of mirror-images", chimes eerily with the grim reality of European politics in the 30s.
He said this one very early morning last week at the Manhattan Center on West 34th Street, as he and his team put finishing touches on a transformation of that cavernous but grim space into something that resembled a curtained anteroom to heaven (or limbo, depending on your thoughts about Turner Entertainment, which had booked the space for its upfront presentation of next season's shows).
We must sound eager while asking Jan when our 72 hours of parental limbo might end, because Jan smile-shames us like a grim nun.
In his 1990 short "Grim," the Grim Reaper dozes over his death warrants, dreaming about a Caribbean vacation where he leads beachgoers in a limbo under his scythe and, naturally, to their death.
