How to Use doomsday in a Sentence

doomsday

noun
  • The book explores a doomsday scenario in which an asteroid hits the Earth.
  • When did the need for a lunar doomsday vault hit home for you?
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 July 2024
  • Please, let’s try to keep the doomsday doldrums out of this for now.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 18 Aug. 2017
  • If Mike Clevinger keeps this up, the doomsday rhymes can cease.
    — Zack Meisel, cleveland.com, 8 July 2017
  • The doomsday crowd may want to check its history books.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 May 2026
  • The doomsday scenario is that the sides can’t agree on a raise for Brady.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Some of Orvis’ (very large) square footage is cliché for a doomsday bunker — but not much.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 Nov. 2025
  • This 'doomsday glacier' is melting fast and could raise sea level in a few years.
    — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Well, uh, might wanna make room in the bunker with the rest of the doomsday preppers.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Have no fear - there's a doomsday prophet that says the world will soon be ending anyway.
    — Leada Gore, AL.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • For now, oil futures haven’t reached doomsday levels.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 16 May 2026
  • The death penalty is still on the table for the doomsday author.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
  • These doomsday films may or may not turn you into a survivalist.
    — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 July 2025
  • The doomsday plane is part of a group of aircraft known as the Nightwatch.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The doomsday clock has been moved up to two-and-a-half minutes before midnight.
    — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 29 Jan. 2017
  • Among those who oppose the government, there’s a kind of doomsday feel.
    — Ian Prasad Philbrick, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2023
  • And yes, Putin has been using that doomsday threat and that fear to saber-rattle.
    — WIRED, 20 June 2023
  • Gold is a classic doomsday asset.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 23 Dec. 2025
  • That’s the closest the clock has been to doomsday since 1953.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Their 47-ton garage door was designed to withstand a doomsday blast.
    — James A. Fussell, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Tomorrow may, in fact, be doomsday.
    — Jonathan Odden, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • More seeds for the doomsday vault; more backups being reëstablished.
    — Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2021
  • This is not a future climate doomsday scenario.
    — Daniela Flores, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026
  • The marmot can offer a portion of hope in this doomsday scenario.
    — Rochelle Baker, Wired, 28 Nov. 2020
  • The brick and mortar retail doomsday clock moved closer to midnight this week.
    — Ben Popken, NBC News, 13 May 2017
  • In many ways, Elon Musk is the world’s biggest doomsday prepper.
    — Tim Higgins, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Five is the last to land, smack dab in the middle of a nuclear doomsday, which - spoiler alert!
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 8 July 2020
  • Not to go all doomsday on you, but even the smallest of nuclear wars could be enough to spark global famine.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
  • First, their ancestors had to survive the dinosaurs’ doomsday, which was no small feat.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 May 2026
  • Right now - from religion to climate change to doomsday prepping - there's a lot of talk about the end of the world.
    — Brittany Luse, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025

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