How to Use apocalypse in a Sentence

apocalypse

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Best to keep up; no one wants to be left behind in a zombie apocalypse.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 16 May 2020
  • This helped to set off the SaaS apocalypse.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The SaaS apocalypse, in his telling, is not hype.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Faced with a tableau of the apocalypse, one human response was to dance.
    — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Wouldn’t want to give them a reason to start the robot apocalypse.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 July 2018
  • So, time to replace the boy who cried wolf fable with the host who scream apocalypse.
    — Fox News, 1 July 2018
  • Maybe, about a year after the apocalypse, all of Earth will look like this.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The names are gleaned from books after the climate apocalypse has drowned coastal cities.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • There are big things going on all around them, and granted, most of it is the apocalypse.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • So there’s something to look forward to when the apocalypse ends.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 July 2020
  • Could a jobs apocalypse be coming?
    — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 15 June 2026
  • The report of an apocalypse near miss came as a wake-up call to Reagan.
    — Evan Thomas, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • 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
  • This isn’t the first time the networks have had to grapple with an autumn apocalypse.
    — Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
  • In fact, the effects of climate change sound much like the symptoms of the apocalypse.
    — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Searches for the phrase job apocalypse are spiking.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
  • And just when things could not look rosier, the SaaS apocalypse occurred.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • Like many episodes in the series, the threat of nuclear apocalypse looms large.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2017
  • That prospect alone is a good incentive to live at least long enough to witness their gods’ apocalypse.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • An apocalypse that keeps (a notion of) their world alive, at the expense of (a notion of) our own.
    — Longreads, 29 Dec. 2021
  • But none of this means the robot apocalypse is imminent.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • This year already, the media was warning of the four bikers of the apocalypse.
    — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Maybe the current apocalypse in the West will abate and cameras will feel normal again.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2020
  • In thrall to visions of virtual apocalypse, Land soon saw his life fall apart.
    — James Duesterberg, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026

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