How to Use prepper in a Sentence
prepper
noun-
Numerous prepper websites include extensive lists of apocalypse-ready supplies.
— Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024 -
So, the chef, the cook, the assembler, and the ingredient prepper all get in the same room to stop the back-and-forth.
— Shane Snow, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023 -
You’ve been reported in the past to be a doomsday prepper.
— Time, 21 June 2023 -
In many ways, Elon Musk is the world’s biggest doomsday prepper.
— Tim Higgins, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2023 -
Amazon This would make a great gift for cyclists, campers, and preppers.
— Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023 -
In the game, Bill antagonizes Ellie after Joel and his ward meet up with the prepper.
— Scottie Andrew, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023 -
If Grasso is a kind of fire prepper, his neighbor Rose Wiley, 89, is among those who try not to worry too much.
— BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2021 -
But just in case those crops fail, Red Planet settlers would want enough in storage to make a doomsday prepper seem ill equipped.
— Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2017 -
The air fryer and pressure cooker combo—a meal prepper’s dream.
— Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2021 -
These are the decisions of a doomsday prepper, not a climate leader.
— Ketan Joshi, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023 -
These skills are helpful in a disaster, or just to satisfy a yearning to survive off the grid, or, in the case of preppers, a doomsday event.
— Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023 -
The Field Museum's lead fossil prepper Aikiko Shinya spotted the first bits of the animal, which was named after her in part.
— Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2016 -
The ultimate in prepper cool is going off the electrical grid.
— Steven Levy, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020 -
The meal prepper on your list will appreciate the head start this box filled with succulent proteins gives them.
— Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 24 Nov. 2022 -
There are some firms that build bunkers to install in or around homes, and there are also several prepper camps around the nation where people pay a fee to escape to.
— Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2020 -
And seriously, what is up with Matt's doomsday-prepper beard?
— Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2021 -
This particular aisle, with traditional meats in all forms, feels like it was made for a doomsday prepper.
— Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2023 -
There’s tons of great stuff on the platform, but one of the most unique shows is Little Lion’s Den, a bizarre hybrid of doomsday prepper paranoia, psychedelic drugs, and puppets.
— PCMAG, 22 June 2022 -
While the seller of this sprawling compound, who wishes to remain anonymous, might not be a doomsday prepper, all of the safe rooms and spy-like features in his residence serve a purpose.
— Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 17 May 2022 -
Interesting like the role as a woman battling doomsday preppers in Drew Mylrea’s sci-fi thriller Last Survivors.
— Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023 -
There’s a big difference between being a prepper and being prepared.
— Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Oct. 2022 -
Apocalypse preppers, religious doomsday Redditors and writers have all, at some point, seized on the idea.
— Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 28 June 2023 -
Pykhtina said her Facebook feed is now filled with prepper pages, how-to lists for packing a go-bag, keeping the car filled with gas, surviving without electricity.
— Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022 -
The brother of Idaho mom Lori Vallow, who was charged in connection with the murders of her children after falling in love with a doomsday prepper, talks about family secrets and tragedies.
— Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022 -
The coronavirus pandemic made tech preppers feel vindicated, for a while.
— David Streitfeld, New York Times, 11 June 2023 -
Overnight oats Overnight oats are growing in popularity for meal preppers due to their simplicity and health benefits.
— Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023 -
Over the past decade or so, a small but spirited subculture of prepper types has been hoarding nickels as a contingency plan against inflation Armageddon.
— Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2022 -
In his book Survival of the Richest, media theorist Douglass Rushkoff describes meeting with a group of billionaire preppers who bombarded him with questions about how best to configure their bunkers to survive the end times.
— Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023 -
The third episode, for instance, spotlights the relationship between misanthropic doomsday prepper Bill and gregarious lover of the finer things Frank.
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2023 -
Data shows that prepper conventions have indeed dwindled.
— Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
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