How to Use apocalyptic in a Sentence

apocalyptic

adjective

• No one listened to her apocalyptic predictions.
• The central belief of the cult was that there would be an apocalyptic event in the mid-1990s.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• This would be nothing short of apocalyptic if the Fed could not save the day.
  — John W. Diamond, Fortune, 16 May 2023
• The two had a fight to the death at a power station, where both died in an apocalyptic blast.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
• One does not have to be apocalyptic to feel the echoes today.
  — William Inboden, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
• Even in a post-apocalyptic world, the people that taught Bill to weld and cook a meal are standing over us.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
• And the mega-realtors and brokers of L.A. are apocalyptic about what the new tax will do.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2023
• The air filled with dust and debris, giving the area a slightly post-apocalyptic feel.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
• The present is a mess; the future is an apocalyptic question mark.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• The sun was obscured by smoke, the sky an apocalyptic orange hue.
  — Dan Bilefsky, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
• All this may sound like the kind of apocalyptic scenario spun by pundits in search of a catchy headline.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024
• The shopping scenes that Betts describes is an apocalyptic mess of chic.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 7 July 2023
• Perhaps that was the wrong takeaway from binging a bunch of post-apocalyptic movies.
  — Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
• The Last Knight is crammed with more apocalyptic nonsense; more magical items save the world.
  — Nick Allen, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• There’s plenty of blame to go around in the wake of an apocalyptic disaster in eastern Libya.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• The 2021 tournament felt like a post-apocalyptic version of the Phoenix Open.
  — John Marshall, ajc, 12 Feb. 2022
• Some of them sound apocalyptic, warning of bans or fines.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 31 Dec. 2021
• It’s only when the first of the young men (Michail Tabakakis) goes out into the deserted streets and hears music that the apocalyptic spell breaks.
  — The New Yorker, 29 June 2022
• Missing even the play-in round would be an apocalyptic event for a team with the largest payroll in league history.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
• This is a far cry from the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Fallout or the high fantasy world of The Elder Scrolls.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 12 May 2022
• In post-apocalyptic Africa, one woman escapes the still-raging genocide to give birth to her daughter in the desert.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
• That one was set in a post-apocalyptic future (though parts of it seem more and more prescient with each passing year).
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 4 Dec. 2021
• Two years ago in Arizona, and in most of the world, conditions were starting to feel apocalyptic.
  — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2022
• The network's newest hit, The Last of Us, based on the 2013 Sony action-adventure/horror video game of the same name, is set in a post-apocalyptic world.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 23 Jan. 2023
• But just because the smoke has mostly cleared for now doesn’t mean those apocalyptic scenes won’t be back later in the summer.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 12 June 2023
• At first blush, the Zero-One’s looks a little like a Vespa from the post-apocalyptic future.
  — Kyle Schnitzer, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2022
• Meadows’ texts appeared to join the Manichaean casting of the election in apocalyptic terms.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
• But as the day drags on, Leonard’s apocalyptic visions seem more and more plausible.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
• Persona is a spin-off from Atlus’ apocalyptic dungeon-crawling series Shin Megami Tensei.
  — Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
• But the apocalyptic tone and hard-line policy prescriptions in the two private speeches go further than his earlier pronouncements.
  — Molly Redden, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024