How to Use Armageddon in a Sentence

Armageddon

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  • The 1878 eclipse in the U.S. aroused fears of Armageddon, moving one man to kill his young son with an ax and slit his own throat.
    — John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • But, for every Deep Impact, there’s more Armageddon—movies that want to have a hoot and a holler at the near-end of the world.
    — James Grebey, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • But this year and last serve as a reminder that every year isn’t a wildfire Armageddon, Clements said.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Such is the premise of this joke from his most recent Netflix special Armageddon.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 7 June 2024
  • Season one was all about averting Armageddon, dangerous prophecies and the End of the World.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Season One was all about averting Armageddon, dangerous prophecies, and the End of the World.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • That is why each side sees every election now as a mini Armageddon.
    — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The fraught hours leading up to the explosion—an overnight thunderstorm, bets on the size of the blast, nagging fears of Armageddon—are confined to about eight minutes of screen time.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 July 2023
  • And though many of today's fans know them thanks to Tyler's own star power (or maybe the movie Armageddon), the band has been making major headlines since those early days.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Kate Kroll will share producer credits on Armageddon Road with Lam.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • But count this as one Hollywood Armageddon avoided for now.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • With disastrous consequences; the world is now full of H bombs on submarines, missiles and bombers, 45 minutes from Armageddon.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • But America in 2024 could well be facing the Armageddon of democracy.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The good news is that the true Armageddon situation for Stadia customers is not happening.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
  • President Biden, who just a few days ago re-stated that the threat of Russia unleashing a Nuclear Armageddon is real, must think carefully how to react to this one.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 24 June 2023
  • The widespread assumption was that nuclear weapons were weapons unlike any other, and that using them would mean crossing a Rubicon to Armageddon.
    — Jackson Lears, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • International rights are available for the project that features Armageddon Time and Master of None producers.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023
  • Taylor-Joy’s Furiosa may look too physically slight to handle the Armageddon, but that sense of vulnerability of course serves the story.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 15 May 2024
  • The details of the size and quality of the two superpowers’ nuclear arsenals therefore interested him much less than the ways in which the diplomacy of détente could reduce the risk of Armageddon.
    — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Nuclear Armageddon and climate change are much more pressing worries.
    — Susan D'agostino, Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The 61-year-old actor — who also appeared in Armageddon and Groundhog Day — was diagnosed with cancer on October 27 and is now preparing for a lengthy surgery to fight the disease, his family revealed.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Campaigns are Armageddon; losing brings the apocalypse.
    — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
  • Early Jehovah’s Witnesses believed 1914 would be the beginning of the end of worldly governments, which would culminate with the Battle of Armageddon.
    — Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Experts, including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, say the risk of nuclear Armageddon is higher today than ever before.
    — Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Miami Armageddon was averted Friday when thousands if not millions of hungry Pollo Tropical customers were at long last able to order black beans again.
    — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The four-woman act revealed that Armageddon will be released on May 27 in a 30-second clip that opens with ominous keyboard sounds and an overhead shot of a watery, crop circle-like formation featuring a cryptic formation.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Realizing that the risk of Armageddon was very real, Reagan consciously dialed back his hawkishness.
    — Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Trumpism is a direct consequence of our penchant for political Armageddon.
    — Matt Bai, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
  • Facing financial Armageddon, both systems (and most others statewide) threatened severe service cutbacks.
    — Steven Greenhut, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Hathaway was dealt the unenviable task of embodying director James Gray’s mother in Armageddon Time, an autobiographical drama based on his childhood.
    — Chris Bellamy and Stephanie Kaloi, EW.com, 2 May 2024

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