How to Use apocalypse in a Sentence

apocalypse

noun
Definition of apocalypsenext
Synonyms for apocalypsenext
  • His book tells of an environmental apocalypse.
  • Five is back in time and tries to figure out what will cause the apocalypse.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 31 July 2020
  • Entireworld was like the rare life form that survives the apocalypse.
    — Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Our crew jumps forward in time, landing the day after what would have been the 2019 apocalypse.
    — Kelsea Stahler, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The apocalypse was quiet and banal, a boring nightmare.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2020
  • When faced with the climate apocalypse, Rich veers cliché and sentimental.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2024
  • What if the siblings can't control the timeline and despite their best efforts, the apocalypse always happens?
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The apocalypse from the end of season 1 has successfully been prevented, but some changes have occurred along with it.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Love it or hate it, the notion of a zombie apocalypse has played a small but persistent part in modern popular culture for more than a half-century.
    — Bill Sheehan, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The world has been haunted by the prospect of a devastating nuclear apocalypse ever since—and so has TV and the movies.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Ben sacrificed himself to stop Vanya from starting another apocalypse.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 4 Aug. 2020
  • This fact brings us to Vanya, the lynchpin in yet another Umbrella Academy apocalypse.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 1 Aug. 2020
  • In an interview with Inverse, Blackman said next season likely won’t feature another apocalypse.
    — Lauren Puckett, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 July 2020
  • In recent years, the notion of an insect apocalypse has become a hot topic in the conservation science community and has captured the public’s attention.
    — Matthew D. Moran, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Even then, the black hole wouldn’t lead to an apocalypse.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The piece suggests that recent comments by Russian president Vladimir Putin related to launching a nuclear strike signal a looming apocalypse.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024

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