How to Use apocalyptic in a Sentence

apocalyptic

adjective

• No one listened to her apocalyptic predictions.
• The present is a mess; the future is an apocalyptic question mark.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• Six years later ‘Jupiter’ has become a post-apocalyptic road trip.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2021
• Hanks gets his own one-man show with this heartwarming and often funny post-apocalyptic film, though a robot and a dog come along for the ride as his best friends.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021
• Trump paints an apocalyptic picture of the U.S. if Harris is elected.
  — Sarah Atwood, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2024
• Upcycling studio Visori proved to be one of the more exciting up-and-comers with a strong take on apocalyptic couture.
  — Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
• Do the math, and those apocalyptic predictions seem conservative.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
• For his next two novels, Greci remained in Alaska but veered into the post-apocalyptic genres popular with young readers.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2021
• Some conservative politicians describe socialism as an apocalyptic threat to freedom.
  — Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• Persona is a spin-off from Atlus’ apocalyptic dungeon-crawling series Shin Megami Tensei.
  — Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
• And the voters, fueled by a conservative media bubble that speaks in apocalyptic terms, were convinced that America had been brought to the brink by a litany of social movements that had gone too far.
  — New York Times, 6 Nov. 2021
• 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 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

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024