PURGATORY in a Sentence
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Example sentences for PURGATORY, such as:
1. The whole thing has been simple purgatory.
2. Maybe it's over, I'm in purgatory and this is my punishment.
3. She looked another way, disconcerted, and wondered how long this purgatory was to last.
2. Maybe it's over, I'm in purgatory and this is my punishment.
3. She looked another way, disconcerted, and wondered how long this purgatory was to last.
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Meanings and Examples of PURGATORY
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purgatory
n. (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins
n. a temporary condition of torment or suffering
Classic Sentence:
1 They would have persuaded me I was in purgatory, but I knew too well the pursy short-breathed voice of the Father Abbot.
2 She looked another way, disconcerted, and wondered how long this purgatory was to last.
3 The particular judgement was over and the soul had passed to the abode of bliss or to the prison of purgatory or had been hurled howling into hell.
4 The whole thing has been simple purgatory.
5 Later came midsummer, with the stifling heat, when the dingy killing beds of Durham's became a very purgatory; one time, in a single day, three men fell dead from sunstroke.
Example Sentence:
1 Maybe it's over, I'm in purgatory and this is my punishment.