How to Use liminal in a Sentence

liminal

adjective

• The night sky does have its own dazzling beauty, as do the liminal times of dawn and dusk.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 29 Mar. 2022
• As a death doula, a big part of the work is sitting in that liminal space rather than running away from it.
  — Nicole Stanton, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
• Dusk is neither day nor night but a liminal space, at once slow motion and fast changing.
  — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2020
• Mann thinks this could be a liminal moment for those in attendance.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
• You aren’t staying confined and that’s the idea of the club as a liminal or in-between space.
  — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
• If that sounds like your kind of scare, here are eight other liminal horror films to lose yourself in.
  — Irenie Forshaw, TheWeek, 10 June 2026
• Middle age is a liminal space for women in any era, but even more so for a Merovingian.
  — Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• Even in those liminal zones, humans still owe a healthy measure of deference to wildlife.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2022
• The closing of a letter suits the liminal space of the benediction.
  — Julia Cho, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2024
• Toward the book’s end, Smita is back in the liminal space of the airport, but changed.
  — Anri Wheeler, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• The hurry-up-and-wait nature of the search left the climbers’ friends and family in an odd, liminal space.
  — Matt Skenazy, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
• My Body sits in this liminal space between reappraisal and self-defense.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2021
• For the Brexit-brigade, the longer this liminal space exists the better.
  — Samuel Earle, New Republic, 14 Dec. 2017
• Prepare for the Sagittarius moon’s liminal space to hang you up.
  — USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
• Turns out our brains can stay active for a period of time during that liminal state between life and death.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023
• What is grief if not living in the liminal space between mourning and coping, of life and death itself?
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2025
• There was some sense of safety in just sitting with myself and my thoughts in the neutral, liminal space of a waiting room.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
• Bodies in liminal states — between life and death, adult and child — exist in a state of psychic mayhem.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• There is an interesting liminal space at the edges of what nuclei can bear, Nazarewicz notes.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• Central Europe has long been a kind of liminal space, a fringe between empires.
  — Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2024
• More than anything, kimchi is a reminder of the passage of time, that liminal space between death and (new) life.
  — Eric Kim, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
• With the sun and Venus moving through this liminal space in your birth chart, your solitude becomes sacred.
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
• Language, we’re reminded, feels like a liminal space.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2026
• Magic is the base reality, and the reader is plunged at once into a murky liminal space of blood, smoke and snakes.
  — David Wright, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• For Iowa, the team and the state, Clark’s maybe-final season exists in a kind of liminal space.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• Over the course of the last two years, airports have gone from bustling hubs to liminal spaces to uneasy territory.
  — Laura Reilly, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2021
• Like being trapped in a fever dream or moving through a liminal space, the stories play with the feeling of wrongness, of things out of place.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 11 June 2025
• That liminal space is a perfect breeding ground for pitchmen and opportunists.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
• In 1956, a young woman in a white pillbox hat would not have talked about liminal boundaries.
  — Jennifer Reese, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• The girls, buzzed on miniature cans of soda, lingered in the liminal space between rolling credits and parental pickup.
  — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026