How to Use doomsday in a Sentence

doomsday

noun
  • The book explores a doomsday scenario in which an asteroid hits the Earth.
  • That’s the closest the clock has been to doomsday since 1953.
    Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The doomsday scenario is that the sides can’t agree on a raise for Brady.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • If Mike Clevinger keeps this up, the doomsday rhymes can cease.
    Zack Meisel, cleveland.com, 8 July 2017
  • The doomsday plane is part of a group of aircraft known as the Nightwatch.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Please, let’s try to keep the doomsday doldrums out of this for now.
    Richard Lawson, Vanities, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Well, uh, might wanna make room in the bunker with the rest of the doomsday preppers.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2021
  • When did the need for a lunar doomsday vault hit home for you?
    Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 July 2024
  • The death penalty is still on the table for the doomsday author.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
  • How many of them might have had a chance to seek help, to live longer, if the idea of a 2012 doomsday weren't so prevalent?
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2012
  • And yes, Putin has been using that doomsday threat and that fear to saber-rattle.
    WIRED, 20 June 2023
  • Have no fear - there's a doomsday prophet that says the world will soon be ending anyway.
    Leada Gore, AL.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • You’ve been reported in the past to be a doomsday prepper.
    Time, 21 June 2023
  • The doomsday clock has been moved up to two-and-a-half minutes before midnight.
    Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 29 Jan. 2017
  • In many ways, Elon Musk is the world’s biggest doomsday prepper.
    Tim Higgins, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2023
  • This 'doomsday glacier' is melting fast and could raise sea level in a few years.
    Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Five is the last to land, smack dab in the middle of a nuclear doomsday, which - spoiler alert!
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 8 July 2020
  • The effects of the 2012 doomsday budget also still linger.
    Philly.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • But stock your doomsday bunkers with extra water jugs and canned goods just in case.
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • The 0-3 Lions arrive at Soldier Field at the perfect time for the Bears to fend off the doomsday chatter.
    Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The space on the other side was dark and sleek, with a look somewhere between an Apple Store and a doomsday bunker.
    Arthur Holland Michel, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Their 47-ton garage door was designed to withstand a doomsday blast.
    James A. Fussell, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Among those who oppose the government, there’s a kind of doomsday feel.
    Ian Prasad Philbrick, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The number of people who died in connection with Kenya’s doomsday cult has crossed the 400 mark.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • Bonds and Clemens find their candidacies stuck in the mud with the doomsday clock ticking.
    Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2020
  • A makeshift doomsday device is in the hands of baby Groot, the miniature tree-trunk creature voiced by Vin Diesel.
    Michael Phillips, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
  • Not long after their move to Arizona, Lori met a new friend named Melanie Gibb, who shared her doomsday views.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Sep. 2024
  • But now, the Fed’s resolve amid the doomsday warnings appears to be paying off.
    Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 13 June 2023
  • In what felt like a true doomsday scenario, tornados broke out across the state, killing several people before Milton had even arrived.
    Kathryn Varn, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
  • It’s long been referred to as a doomsday fish, a reference that likely stems from Japenese folklore, which considered spotting such a fish a precursor to natural disasters, especially earthquakes.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024

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