How to Use apocalypse in a Sentence

apocalypse

noun
  • His book tells of an environmental apocalypse.
  • Days Gone, which casts you as a biker in a zombie apocalypse.
    Simon Hill, Wired, 10 June 2021
  • Here and there, signs of the apocalypse, er, pandemic remain.
    Washington Post, 9 June 2021
  • When the credits roll, Loki and Sylvie stand amid an apocalypse with no way out.
    Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
  • This is a much less glamorous version of Mad Max-style apocalypse -- less swagger and more heat stroke.
    Kari Nixon, CNN, 29 June 2021
  • Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • No one has proclaimed it as a sign of the apocalypse, as college administrators might have done 15 or so years ago.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 18 June 2021
  • According to the history of this apocalypse, the ark never gets off the planet but Loki points out that the ark never had them on it.
    Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 23 June 2021
  • In the foretold, near-future apocalypse there are clear echoes with today's existential distress over climate change.
    Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
  • Winter comes with cold-blooded new challenges during the zombie apocalypse as frantic scavengers and violent militias battle the dead and desperate.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 13 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
  • 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
  • These objects are too small to cause a worldwide apocalypse, but large enough to devastate entire regions.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • So often this conversation is presented as apocalypse being like the option or solving climate change and paradise being the alternative.
    Abc News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2024

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