sort of limbo
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsortandlimbo
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sort
noun
uk/sɔːt/us/sɔːrt/
a group of things that are of the same type or that share ...
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limbo
noun
uk/ˈlɪm.bəʊ/us/ˈlɪm.boʊ/
an uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress ...
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(Definition ofsortandlimbofrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The corporation would find itself in asortoflimbo.
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Some dogs even find themselves in asortoflimbo.
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It leaves them in asortoflimbowhere they have no legal standing.
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It is being said that there is somesortoflimboin which life does not exist.
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She seems to have disappeared into asortoflimbo.
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If we follow it, we shall go down into thesortoflimboin which we shall earn the condemnation of all future generations.
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Or does it mean existing in the sense that the rights are in asortoflimboand have never been exercised but could emerge?
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It is not the case that life sentence prisoners are left in asortoflimbofor many years without their cases ever being considered.
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It would not be appropriate to enact a declaratory provision of this sort and then leave the results of breaching it in somesortoflimbo.
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I was doing so because we should not pass new legislation in asortoflimbobut in relation to the conditions confronting the country at the time.
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Some dwellings may be quite close to the motorway, but because they will not be regarded as being directly affected they will remain in asortoflimbo.
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