How to Use apocalypse in a Sentence

apocalypse

noun
  • His book tells of an environmental apocalypse.
  • 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
  • Last week's episode was Die Hard in the zombie apocalypse.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • We’ve already been primed from all the movies that came out over the years that there’s going to be an apocalypse.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Dean and Sammy were front line workers of the apocalypse.
    Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Soon came the crypto apocalypse, and the New York Bitcoin Center closed down.
    Rod Berger, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The sensors are designed to sniff out signs of the impending apocalypse—not to prevent the end of the world, but to complete it.
    Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
  • So maybe the Volterra isn't quite up for the trials and tribulations of an apocalypse.
    Sasha Richie, Car and Driver, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Days Gone, which casts you as a biker in a zombie apocalypse.
    Simon Hill, Wired, 10 June 2021
  • There's nothing like a good old-fashioned scene from the apocalypse.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2022
  • What is the worst animal to run into during a zombie apocalypse?
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The image is a cousin of Sister Hannah’s basket, too, an apocalypse as placid as an afternoon of apple picking.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

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