the apocalypse

noun

: the end or destruction of the world especially as described in the Christian Bible

Some people believed the apocalypse would happen in the year 2000.

waiting for the apocalypse

Examples of the apocalypse in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Based on the video game franchise of the same name, the series is set two hundred years after the apocalypse. —Joe Otterson, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024

For Lec, at a certain point, the threat of the apocalypse must have seemed as banal and routine as the dawn of a new morning. —Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024

The scientists created the clock using the imagery of the apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the Earth. —Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024

Each character in the film handles the apocalypse very differently. —EW.com, 8 Dec. 2023

Staff Pick: ‘This was the apocalypse’ Six months ago, reporters Alicia Victoria Lozano, Lewis Kamb and Jon Schuppe set out to learn more about the people who died in the foothills of Maui in one of the deadliest wildfires in modern U.S. history. —Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2024

Why is seaweed a good candidate for the apocalypse? —Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024

Morgan Freeman looked The View cohosts dead in the eye and told them the apocalypse is coming. —EW.com, 25 Oct. 2023

Provided the apocalypse doesn’t arrive first, a wave of post-apocalyptic opera is approaching. —Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024