PURGATORY in a Sentence

Learn PURGATORY from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For PURGATORY, below is one of 6 sentences:
They would have persuaded me I was in purgatory, but I knew too well the pursy short-breathed voice of the Father Abbot.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 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.