How to Use apocalyptic in a Sentence

apocalyptic

adjective

• No one listened to her apocalyptic predictions.
• In the sequel the blight is even more pronounced, to the extent that the movie’s setting looks almost post-apocalyptic.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• That powerful apocalyptic tale takes place about 50 years in the future.
  — Washington Post, 26 July 2021
• The clip tells the story of a robot in a post-apocalyptic world, who invents a pair of goggles that allow the wearer to see a brighter world.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2021
• From the outset, expectations were middling at best, apocalyptic at worst.
  — CBS News, 9 Aug. 2021
• Did all the actors from Loki’s Ragnarok survive these apocalyptic events?
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Aug. 2021
• The city felt apocalyptic back then—a rotting, dilapidated carcass in grim decline.
  — Roger Bennett, WSJ, 2 July 2021
• While West Coast states have seen apocalyptic fire, Utah so far enjoyed relatively calm in the face of record heat and historic drought.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2021
• Unclear is whether the task force is there to prevent an apocalyptic threat or shroud a dubious offshore U.S. experiment.
  — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2021
• Apple has unveiled the trailer for season 2 of its post-apocalyptic drama See, set hundreds of years into a future where humankind has lost the ability to, well, see.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 29 July 2021
• Now, just days before a historically tight election, former defense officials and lawmakers say the results could be apocalyptic.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Nathan MacKinnon set a franchise record last season with 140 points and is nearly producing at the same rate this year, despite the Avalanche having an apocalyptic rash of injuries and availability issues.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024