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.

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 Meanings and Examples of PURGATORY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
purgatory
 a.  tending to cleanse or purge; cleansing; expiatory.
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
2  She looked another way, disconcerted, and wondered how long this purgatory was to last.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
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.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  The whole thing has been simple purgatory.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence:
1  Maybe it's over, I'm in purgatory and this is my punishment.