How to Use apocalypse in a Sentence

apocalypse

noun
  • His book tells of an environmental apocalypse.
  • It’s about starting anew, a theme that stands out in the face of an apocalypse, or even a pandemic.
    New York Times, 4 June 2021
  • This is an apocalypse for local restaurants: From back when restaurant closures all began.
    Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer, 4 June 2021
  • The bees, the beetles, even the cute praying mantis that when hatching looks like the coming of the zombie apocalypse and that bites off the heads of their mates ...
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Never met up, never bumped into each other before or after the zombie apocalypse.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 May 2021
  • The zombie apocalypse show shuffles back for Season 11.
    oregonlive, 1 June 2021
  • The national narrative from Fox News, for example, may still paint the city as a burning apocalypse.
    oregonlive, 12 May 2021
  • And as the Good Book says, the family that battles on the frontline of the robot apocalypse together stays together.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2021
  • The book is a stand-alone prequel to Cargill's 2017 novel Sea of Rust, which is set some time after the robot apocalypse.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 18 May 2021
  • Instead, in a near future that’s barely a stone’s throw from now, beset by many of our present predicaments and a sense of impending but not quite imminent apocalypse, his teenage heroes come of age as kids have always done.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 22 Sep. 2024
  • As hospital beds fill, so do our WhatsApp messages with pleas from family and friends abroad who are suffering -- and dying -- amid a medical apocalypse.
    CNN, 4 May 2021
  • Whether deliberately or not, the performance offered a philosophical inquiry into the question of what comes after a near-apocalypse.
    Sheila Regan, Star Tribune, 7 June 2021
  • Even then, the black hole wouldn’t lead to an apocalypse.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Maybe, about a year after the apocalypse, all of Earth will look like this.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Faced with a tableau of the apocalypse, one human response was to dance.
    Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Is their fairy-tale apocalypse — and the rebirth implied in it — sparked by the actions of the adults around them?
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The report of an apocalypse near miss came as a wake-up call to Reagan.
    Evan Thomas, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • There are few mutants in this movie due to a mutant apocalypse, and many of the X-Men are dead.
    Moises Mendez Ii, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • As the end of the world draws near, a group of celebrity pals have to deal with the apocalypse while trying not to drive each other crazy.
    Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
  • There are big things going on all around them, and granted, most of it is the apocalypse.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The names are gleaned from books after the climate apocalypse has drowned coastal cities.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • This isn’t the first time the networks have had to grapple with an autumn apocalypse.
    Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
  • An apocalypse that keeps (a notion of) their world alive, at the expense of (a notion of) our own.
    Longreads, 29 Dec. 2021
  • There’s been an apocalypse, par for the course in this series, and the Elden Ring has been shattered.
    Will Bedingfield, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
  • This year already, the media was warning of the four bikers of the apocalypse.
    New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Who knew a robot apocalypse would pull the brakes on the Mitchell's family road trip?
    Leah Hall, Country Living, 24 Oct. 2022
  • This sounds like the plot of a depressing apocalypse movie.
    Dorothy Slater, The New Republic, 29 Dec. 2021
  • When the credits roll, Loki and Sylvie stand amid an apocalypse with no way out.
    Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
  • Woodard — who is deaf — played a young deaf apocalypse survivor named Sam.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2023
  • But even scarier is the soft apocalypse of a truth that's reduced to trivia.
    WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023

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