How to Use apocalypse in a Sentence

apocalypse

noun
  • His book tells of an environmental apocalypse.
  • Faced with a tableau of the apocalypse, one human response was to dance.
    Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Is their fairy-tale apocalypse — and the rebirth implied in it — sparked by the actions of the adults around them?
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The report of an apocalypse near miss came as a wake-up call to Reagan.
    Evan Thomas, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • As the end of the world draws near, a group of celebrity pals have to deal with the apocalypse while trying not to drive each other crazy.
    Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
  • This isn’t the first time the networks have had to grapple with an autumn apocalypse.
    Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Who knew a robot apocalypse would pull the brakes on the Mitchell's family road trip?
    Leah Hall, Country Living, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Woodard — who is deaf — played a young deaf apocalypse survivor named Sam.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2023
  • But even scarier is the soft apocalypse of a truth that's reduced to trivia.
    WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Soon came the crypto apocalypse, and the New York Bitcoin Center closed down.
    Rod Berger, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • So maybe the Volterra isn't quite up for the trials and tribulations of an apocalypse.
    Sasha Richie, Car and Driver, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The Democrats, newly in power, had touched off the Marxist apocalypse.
    Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The four visitors have arrived to avert the apocalypse, and the family of three will have to make a difficult choice to stop the end of the world.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Where can the one percent court mayhem in the midst of an apocalypse, if not on a private Greek island?
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Also, the eighth season features the fight between witches of the coven and the antichrist to prevent the apocalypse.
    Toby Grey, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The movie reveals that all John and Sarah Connor did in T2 was to delay the apocalypse instead of stopping it.
    Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • How might someone cope with becoming a mother in a world on the brink of apocalypse?
    Talya Zax, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • Years later, Mark awakes from a coma in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, and well, his life didn’t turn out so great.
    Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • At first, Al’s chronicling of the zombie apocalypse seemed like a cool new approach to the story.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The second spin-off of The Walking Dead focused on a group of teenagers trying to survive the zombie apocalypse.
    Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 14 July 2022
  • The story turns on how to survive a zombie apocalypse at a local-store.
    Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In the lightning round, Yeonjun gets the most votes for being the most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse.
    Topher Gauk-Roger, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2022
  • And in many ways, that's a scarier fate to contemplate than a zombie apocalypse.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Is everyone going to make it out of this apocalypse alive?
    Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 22 June 2022
  • And an interesting thing happened on the way to the Comic-Con apocalypse.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2023
  • In spite of their tremendous fortitude, many of these survivors are shunned by those for whom apocalypse awaits.
    Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The Walking Dead, which featured the survivors of a zombie apocalypse trying to stay alive, ran for nine seasons.
    Anne Easton, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But their efforts quickly ran up against a problem: there is more than one way to view a zombie apocalypse.
    Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, Popular Science, 4 May 2023
  • For all the ink spilled about the retail apocalypse and the decline of malls, Park Plaza's parking lot was almost full on Friday at midafternoon.
    Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2023
  • According to them, the family must make a choice to stop the apocalypse from happening.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 2 Dec. 2022

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