How to Use apocalyptic in a Sentence

apocalyptic

adjective

• No one listened to her apocalyptic predictions.
• The central belief of the cult was that there would be an apocalyptic event in the mid-1990s.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• This would be nothing short of apocalyptic if the Fed could not save the day.
  — John W. Diamond, Fortune, 16 May 2023
• One does not have to be apocalyptic to feel the echoes today.
  — William Inboden, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
• Even in a post-apocalyptic world, the people that taught Bill to weld and cook a meal are standing over us.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
• And the mega-realtors and brokers of L.A. are apocalyptic about what the new tax will do.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2023
• The air filled with dust and debris, giving the area a slightly post-apocalyptic feel.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
• The sun was obscured by smoke, the sky an apocalyptic orange hue.
  — Dan Bilefsky, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
• All this may sound like the kind of apocalyptic scenario spun by pundits in search of a catchy headline.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024
• The shopping scenes that Betts describes is an apocalyptic mess of chic.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 7 July 2023
• Perhaps that was the wrong takeaway from binging a bunch of post-apocalyptic movies.
  — Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
• The Last Knight is crammed with more apocalyptic nonsense; more magical items save the world.
  — Nick Allen, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• There’s plenty of blame to go around in the wake of an apocalyptic disaster in eastern Libya.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• In post-apocalyptic Africa, one woman escapes the still-raging genocide to give birth to her daughter in the desert.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
• The network's newest hit, The Last of Us, based on the 2013 Sony action-adventure/horror video game of the same name, is set in a post-apocalyptic world.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 23 Jan. 2023
• But just because the smoke has mostly cleared for now doesn’t mean those apocalyptic scenes won’t be back later in the summer.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 12 June 2023
• But as the day drags on, Leonard’s apocalyptic visions seem more and more plausible.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
• The on-screen version follows a man trying to survive a post-apocalyptic world.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 19 Jan. 2023
• The life-giving force of her artistry, and the bold decision to make the world dance when apocalyptic vibes have never been stronger, was a gift unlike no other.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Nov. 2022
• Climate change and other forces at play in our state have shaped his apocalyptic fiction for decades.
  — Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
• Amid the trying time in her life, which Swift later described as an apocalyptic summer, the singer took a hiatus from the spotlight.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
• The time-jumping, post-apocalyptic drama is based on the 2013 Sony action-adventure/horror video game of the same name.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 2 Feb. 2023
• Released for the PlayStation in 2013, the game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which the planet is overrun by infected humans.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 2 Jan. 2023
• This post-apocalyptic chase movie is full of action and Charlize Theron is pretty bad ass in it, too.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 Nov. 2022
• New York City is shrouded in a smoky, apocalyptic haze, which will persist all day today (June 7).
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 June 2023
• Music that bleeds with the apocalyptic collisions of bounce beat-era go-go and the lyrical belligerence of drill.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023
• The book is a despairing account of a boy and his father lurching across the cold, wretched, corpse-strewn, ashen landscape of a post-apocalyptic world.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• About a mile south, in a business park along Fairmount, 1-year-old One Season Brewing is in apocalyptic mode.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024
• In a post-apocalyptic near-future, a researcher at an AI lab leads the effort to end a civil war by cloning the brain of a heroic soldier — her mother.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Godzilla is thus an apocalyptic figure, in the strictest sense of the word: a thing of unmasking, of revelation.
  — Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024