How to Use postapocalyptic in a Sentence

postapocalyptic

adjective

• This is the starting point of Usoni, the first postapocalyptic video game produced in Africa.
  — Clément Girardot, Wired, 20 May 2021
• Bird Box is a postapocalyptic thriller based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Josh Malerman.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2019
• Its iconic palm trees jut out of the water like props in a postapocalyptic movie.
  — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Hone up those spear and bow skills, and get ready to jump back into Aloy’s postapocalyptic world sometime this year.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
• Carl was widely seen as the future of the postapocalyptic world: Rick, a former sheriff, has been grooming him to take over as the leader of the survivors.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2017
• All-black ensembles, bedazzled sweat suits, and full-length shiny black coats just added to the postapocalyptic vibe.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 10 Feb. 2018
• After Deathstroke and Lex Luthor drink some bubbly, there’s a hard cut to a skeleton in the middle of a postapocalyptic wasteland.
  — Ryan Britt, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
• By midafternoon, the Mahindra was running out of gas, with stinking cannabis plants hanging out the windows like a prop in some postapocalyptic zombie movie.
  — Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
• The lyrics are quite appropriate for the movie, with David Byrne singing from the perspective of somebody living in a postapocalyptic setting.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 4 May 2021
• Its force and fury stripped every tree of not just the leaves, but also the bark, leaving a rich agricultural region looking like the result of a postapocalyptic drought.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
• The Last of Us stars Pascal and Ramsey as a smuggler transporting a teenager girl across a postapocalyptic landscape.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2023
• There is always something postapocalyptic about Rick Owens, and this time around, his floor-sweeping sleeping-bag capes matched the general mood.
  — Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Dec. 2020
• The Last of Us, Part 2 looks to be … a dark, brutal meditation on violence and power in a postapocalyptic landscape.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 11 Jan. 2020
• In Stray, the postapocalyptic adventure game from BlueTwelve Studio, players are cast as an unnamed orange and brown-striped tabby cat.
  — WIRED, 19 Aug. 2022
• The Book of Eli just never creates enough character depth or dark ambience to sustain its sparse, postapocalyptic world.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2010
• The new series follows a group of Nebraska teens raised in a surviving civilization of the postapocalyptic world.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2020
• The dances, the alliterative place-names, the dearth of true postapocalyptic menace: these can indicate a lack of seriousness that to some seems spell-breaking.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• One of Sweet Tooth’s greatest strengths is its ability to infuse postapocalyptic horror with wonder and delight, which prevents the show from becoming too bleak and heavy.
  — Oliver Sava, Vulture, 5 June 2021
• Many people speculate that the site will become some sort of postapocalyptic bunker in case of civilization collapse.
  — Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
• Not everyone pictures the same postapocalyptic landscape, of course.
  — Hayley Phelan, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2018
• His arena of choice: Fortnite, the wildly popular battle-royal video game, set in a postapocalyptic future.
  — Time Staff, Time, 28 June 2018
• Their immediate power came from their uncanny postapocalyptic vision: This is what the world would look like without us.
  — Jake Pitre, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
• Third-season premiere of the postapocalyptic martial-arts series.
  — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Watching a postapocalyptic film more than a year into a global pandemic is an exercise in the uncanny.
  — Jerrine Tan, Wired, 16 June 2021
• Her audience’s eyes were still recovering from her high-wire gyrations, her postapocalyptic backup ravers, and her many, many lasers.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2023
• This time, sword-wielding superhero Dani O’Malley is battling to save a postapocalyptic Dublin from a terrifying evil determined to enslave the human race.
  — Leigh Cuen, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2018
• Sorry to the rest of humanity, but a postapocalyptic future brought out Foley’s finest dramatic performance of the series.
  — Jill Krajewski, Vulture, 24 May 2022
• Still, prepping for the evening at Erivo’s home in Los Angeles, the pair managed to bring to life a modern adaptation of postapocalyptic beauty referencing an icon who’s hardly a wallflower.
  — Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2020
• The Last of Us, and countless other postapocalyptic entertainments.
  — Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• This doorstop of a book is really three: a sweeping and frequently poetic account of widespread death by plague, a postapocalyptic cross-country road trip, a battle between literal good and evil.
  — Molly McArdle, Men's Health, 3 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024