How to Use apocalyptic in a Sentence

apocalyptic

adjective
  • No one listened to her apocalyptic predictions.
  • There’s a pre-apocalyptic chill in the air.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • In my half-dream, the world looked apocalyptic.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
  • So what’s a traveler to do in the face of all this apocalyptic news?
    — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The sight of a huge fireball from my driveway felt like a scene from an apocalyptic movie.
    — Misti Allison, TIME, 1 Feb. 2025
  • This would be nothing short of apocalyptic if the Fed could not save the day.
    — John W. Diamond, Fortune, 16 May 2023
  • The two had a fight to the death at a power station, where both died in an apocalyptic blast.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
  • But Luther was not the only apocalyptic thinker of his time.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The sun was obscured by smoke, the sky an apocalyptic orange hue.
    — Dan Bilefsky, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
  • The present is a mess; the future is an apocalyptic question mark.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Whether or not its lyrics were inspired by those apocalyptic events, the song gives me great comfort.
    — Noa Tishby, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The show, like the comic, takes place in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a virus known as the sick.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2021
  • Her new ad builds on that apocalyptic vision of a dream gone bad in a state that was once the envy of the world.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2021
  • Joe, what about if Deathstroke's with them in the post-apocalyptic world?
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Louisville looked apocalyptic last night.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Tell me about the post-apocalyptic vision of the album.
    — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2025
  • All this may sound like the kind of apocalyptic scenario spun by pundits in search of a catchy headline.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The air filled with dust and debris, giving the area a slightly post-apocalyptic feel.
    — Madeleine Aggeler, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Let the apocalyptic, threat-laden deadlines slide.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Perhaps that was the wrong takeaway from binging a bunch of post-apocalyptic movies.
    — Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
  • And all the apocalyptic predictions failed to come true.
    — Nick Hanauer, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026
  • As apocalyptic scenarios go, this one ain't so bad.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The shopping scenes that Betts describes is an apocalyptic mess of chic.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 7 July 2023
  • The damage is done, and the damage appears to be darn-near apocalyptic.
    — Theoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 31 Dec. 2025
  • At the end of the block, where Libby’s house once stood, an apocalyptic scene awaited them.
    — Diana Markosian, National Geographic, 21 Sep. 2020
  • George Clooney trudges across an icy, post-apocalyptic wasteland with a little girl in tow.
    — Jim Kiest, ExpressNews.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • That one was set in a post-apocalyptic future (though parts of it seem more and more prescient with each passing year).
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Even in a post-apocalyptic world, the people that taught Bill to weld and cook a meal are standing over us.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Fire stretching across dark, nighttime horizons looked like scenes from an apocalyptic movie.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2026
  • There's a different take on a post apocalyptic universe where the world is made of plastic and not garbage.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025

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