Sample Sentences forpurgatory (editor-reviewed)
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The months between his surgery and the news that he was cancer-free were emotional purgatory for his whole family.purgatory = a state of temporary suffering while waiting
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In some branches of Christianity, believers pray for the souls of the dead to be released from purgatorypurgatory = a place of temporary suffering after death
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After hours of sitting in the airport with no updates, the stranded travelers described the experience as pure purgatory.purgatory = a state of temporary suffering while waiting
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She couldn't stand another day like this, not knowing if her ugly purgatory would ever end. (source)
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They were all different rooms in purgatory, each different but each the same, and the Nazis made it all the more nonsensical by shuttling us around from one to the other, as though it made any difference. (source)purgatory = a place of suffering
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"Where are we?" "Purgatory," says Hayden. "Also known as Arizona." (source)Purgatory = a place of temporary suffering
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Canton was a seething purgatory in the shape of a pork chop, consisting mostly of coral and scrubby plants huddled close to the ground, as if cringing from the heat. (source)purgatory = a place of temporary suffering
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I would get through my self-imposed sentence here in purgatory, and then hopefully some school in the Southwest, or possibly Hawaii, would offer me a scholarship. (source)
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Anyone who had seen the lurid Bosch painting of the same name understood the jab; the painting, like the forest, was dark and twisted, a purgatory for freaks and fetishists. (source)purgatory = a place of suffering
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And then the insurance debacles, the descent into this health care purgatory.† (source)
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wednesday september 2nd — five days to purgatory — 10:00 a.m.† (source)
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He's headed for the Purgatory this time, I bet.† (source)
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The whole time I've been in Indiana, which is all my life— the purgatory years, I call them—we've apparently lived just eleven miles away from the highest point in the state.† (source)
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Each morning after breakfast and prayers she sat us down at the table and poked the backs of our heads with her index finger, bending us over our schoolbooks (and Ruth May her coloring), getting us in shape for Purgatory, I'd reckon.† (source)
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Until the summer of '62, I thought that childhood and adolescence were a purgatory without apparent end; I thought that youth, in a word, "sucked."† (source)
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One year in purgatory.† (source)
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