purgatories
- plural of purgatory.
Example Sentences
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He could ask Washingtonians and Puerto Ricans for forgiveness over not righting their untenable political purgatories.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024
Treasury officials, who are trying to brace the public for refund delays, service disruptions, interminable telephone-hold purgatories and other unpleasantries that taxpayers will face over the next few months.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022
These upheavals and tragedies pierce the illusions we have constructed and leave us trapped and spellbound in self-inflicted and imposed purgatories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2019
It was a modest success, yet Ms. Wyatt spent the next several years mired in various record-label purgatories, a moist, bright voice lost to time.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2011
An equal proportion of timber and prairie, some excellent, other parts inferior,—and some bad, miry swamps, called "purgatories."
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason
