How to Use apocalypse in a Sentence

apocalypse

noun
Definition of apocalypsenext
Synonyms for apocalypsenext
  • His book tells of an environmental apocalypse.
  • So put on the latex gloves of the apocalypse and grab a box.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Even then, the black hole wouldn’t lead to an apocalypse.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Just what the world needs right now: a story about the apocalypse.
    — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 26 May 2020
  • Five is back in time and tries to figure out what will cause the apocalypse.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 31 July 2020
  • Maybe, about a year after the apocalypse, all of Earth will look like this.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, the effects of climate change sound much like the symptoms of the apocalypse.
    — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The third world, the origin world, is the one that can save everyone from the apocalypse once and for all.
    — Ashley Chervinski, refinery29.com, 28 June 2020
  • And music may be what will keep us sane if misty-eyed in the apocalypse.
    — Lorrie Moore, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Her friends have joked that her house is the place to be if an apocalypse occurs.
    — Madison Smalstig, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • There are few mutants in this movie due to a mutant apocalypse, and many of the X-Men are dead.
    — Moises Mendez Ii, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • Last week's episode was Die Hard in the zombie apocalypse.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • We’ve already been primed from all the movies that came out over the years that there’s going to be an apocalypse.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2021
  • First thing's first, the season is landing June 27, which also happens to be the date of the apocalypse in the show.
    — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 26 May 2020
  • 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
  • There are big things going on all around them, and granted, most of it is the apocalypse.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Yet for the 40% or so of voters who back Donald Trump, his defeat would make the day of the election seem the eve of the apocalypse.
    — Ron Grossman, Star Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The names are gleaned from books after the climate apocalypse has drowned coastal cities.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • This isn’t the first time the networks have had to grapple with an autumn apocalypse.
    — Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
  • An apocalypse that keeps (a notion of) their world alive, at the expense of (a notion of) our own.
    — Longreads, 29 Dec. 2021
  • So there’s something to look forward to when the apocalypse ends.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 July 2020
  • There’s been an apocalypse, par for the course in this series, and the Elden Ring has been shattered.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
  • This year already, the media was warning of the four bikers of the apocalypse.
    — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Best to keep up; no one wants to be left behind in a zombie apocalypse.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 16 May 2020
  • Who knew a robot apocalypse would pull the brakes on the Mitchell's family road trip?
    — Leah Hall, Country Living, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Watching the film, this adds a new dimension, given that flashback scenes with the family before the zombie apocalypse are shot at the Altadena house.
    — William Earl, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025
  • In fact, Mother Nature bears much of the responsibility for the fiery apocalypse.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025

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