the apocalypse

noun

: the end or destruction of the world especially as described in the Christian Bible

Some people believed the apocalypse would happen in the year 2000.

waiting for the apocalypse

Examples of the apocalypse in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Based on a dystopian book trilogy by Hugh Howey, the series focuses on a subterranean bunker—the silo of the title—where humanity has sequestered itself after the apocalypse. —

Angela Watercutter Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 June 2024 Based on the video game franchise of the same name, the series is set two hundred years after the apocalypse. —

Lexi Carson, Variety, 20 June 2024 The four-book tale chronicles the apocalypse of the Four Horsemen: Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death. —

Alyssa Davis, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024 The living memory of happier times was an element of the Mad Max saga that Fury Road largely discarded; in that movie, the apocalypse might as well have happened a century earlier. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for the apocalypse

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