How to Use the apocalypse in a Sentence

the apocalypse

noun
Definition of the apocalypsenext
  • For some, the apocalypse is a very real day-to-day threat.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Now the show has returned, and the apocalypse is averted.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 July 2023
  • If the apocalypse comes, no one will be spared its effects.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • To most ordinary people, the apocalypse is a far cry from the demise of the office.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Based on the video game franchise of the same name, the series is set two hundred years after the apocalypse.
    — Lexi Carson, Variety, 20 June 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
  • Morgan Freeman looked The View cohosts dead in the eye and told them the apocalypse is coming.
    — EW.com, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Or, that at the very least, the Collider is one of the seven seals of the apocalypse (which will also unleash hell on Earth).
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Your last album, Wasteland Baby!, came out in 2019 and was all about the apocalypse and the impending end of the world.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In those myths, valkyries work as a collective for the one-eyed god Odin, and are ready to fight as warriors in the apocalypse known as Ragnarok.
    — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • This is a novel that toys with the end of humanity, but the threshold to the apocalypse has seldom been so fun.
    — Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Members were likely afraid to be left behind during the apocalypse and would do anything to stay with the group.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The five teens must choose between stopping the apocalypse to save the planet or letting the world perish in order to start over from scratch.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Still, the movie's appetite for destruction is too much fun to refuse: a giddy little amuse bouche for the apocalypse to come.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2022
  • In the film, four strangers appear at a remote cabin to tell two fathers and their daughter that one of them must die to prevent the apocalypse.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
  • We have already been told that Joel has done horrible things to survive the apocalypse.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • During the apocalypse in the cold of Quebec, a woman comforts a monster who eats the violent and the cruel.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2023
  • But such rumors were long gone by the 1240s, when victims of the Mongol conquest feared that the apocalypse was playing out before their very eyes.
    — Nicholas Morton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • In a matter of days, the fungus has infected millions, and the apocalypse has begun.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 1 Feb. 2023
  • While some immersed themselves in the apocalypse, others embarked on the trip of a lifetime with 80 for Brady, which touched down in second place at the box office.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2023
  • McDonald’s new Happy Meal collab is here just in time to usher in the apocalypse.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2022
  • This season, Maggie and Negan are marooned on the island of Manhattan, which has been cut off from the rest of the country during the apocalypse.
    — oregonlive, 18 June 2023
  • The constant high-volume propaganda aimed 24 hours a day, seven days a week at the 60-and-up crowd convinces many of them that the world is ending, and only their guns can stop the apocalypse.
    — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
  • When the opportunity arises to protect a young girl who was a part of the experiment that caused the apocalypse, Brad jumps at the chance to redeem himself.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Oh, and the moon is also a hoax because it was created to distract the general masses from the existence of Nibiru, a rogue planet that will cause the apocalypse.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Among these is the dream of getting away from taxes, governments and even the apocalypse by escaping to some remote place — such as an island in the Pacific.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • Among these is the dream of getting away from taxes, governments and even the apocalypse by escaping to some remote place - such as an island in the Pacific.
    — Kelsey Ables, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2023
  • Its creators had learned that sentiment from the Cold War, tapping out time on Atari games about the apocalypse while awaiting its real-world counterpart.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2022

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