limbo

Converse of object

• go: Interfaith Following God's orders ( or not ) limbo gone Political Correctness Understanding God How can I become a better Christian?
• do: I'll leave you with the concept of a penguin doing limbo.
• include: Entertainment Regular entertainment including limbo, steel bands, live combos and cultural shows.

Preposition: between

life: My grandfather had suffered a series of strokes and was hovering in that limbo between life and death.

Adjective modifier

• hideous: I'm now stuck in that hideous limbo between having applied for a great volunteer position and waiting to hear back from them.
• legal: We cannot have months go past with those accused in a legal limbo.
• political: At the moment, charities exist in a form of political limbo.
• virtual: Years of uncertainty about the redevelopment helped to put the city's retail market into a state of virtual limbo.
• uneasy: No-one is sleeping; left in an uneasy limbo they try to make sense of what has happened.
• emotional: Like his washed-up movie star in Lost in Translation, Murray's middle-aged bachelor seems to be stranded in emotional limbo.

Modifies a noun

• dancing: At one point the group had him up there with them limbo dancing.
• dancer: We supply steel bands, limbo dancers or DJs.
• dance: Find the hidden treasure, escape from sharks then limbo dance till you drop.
• competition: There are normally several bike based games, with maybe the limbo competition being the most hotly contested trophy of the weekend.
• land: Or the plain limbo land of not knowing whether you are moving or not.
• state: How long can it hold you in that limbo state?

Preposition: of

uncertainty: It seems grossly unfair to leave them and their children in a further limbo of uncertainty.

Preposition: for

• year: The Walker project went into limbo for a year or two, during which time someone came up with the idea for Lemmings.
• time: It is more than likely that these regimes will remain in limbo for some time to come.
• period: At first sight, that may appear attractive as Respondents to enforcement action will be kept in limbo for a shorter period.