often attributive
1
: a day of final judgment
2
: a time of catastrophic destruction and death
Examples of doomsday in a Sentence
a warning that doomsday is near
The book explores a doomsday scenario in which an asteroid hits the Earth.
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Relman said the goal is that the proactive efforts the group is making will not only protect the planet from a doomsday scenario but could help rebuild some of the trust scientists have lost with the public in recent years.
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
The Republican view Republican supporters of the Big Beautiful Bill tend to be wary of such doomsday talk.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2025
The movie, which posits an impending nuclear strike on a major American city, is a flimsy yet high-minded piece of doomsday schlock, largely populated by ciphers in suits and drained of the pulp pleasures that schlock, at its best, can afford.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
As long as tech-firm valuations keep soaring into the stratosphere and investors keep getting rich, the incentives remain for Wall Street to bless the boom and ignore the doomsday scenarios.
—Rob Wile, NBC news, 6 Oct. 2025
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
The Republican view Republican supporters of the Big Beautiful Bill tend to be wary of such doomsday talk.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2025
The movie, which posits an impending nuclear strike on a major American city, is a flimsy yet high-minded piece of doomsday schlock, largely populated by ciphers in suits and drained of the pulp pleasures that schlock, at its best, can afford.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
As long as tech-firm valuations keep soaring into the stratosphere and investors keep getting rich, the incentives remain for Wall Street to bless the boom and ignore the doomsday scenarios.
—Rob Wile, NBC news, 6 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for doomsday
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“Doomsday.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doomsday. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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