How to Use postapocalyptic in a Sentence

postapocalyptic

adjective
  • Its iconic palm trees jut out of the water like props in a postapocalyptic movie.
    — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Hone up those spear and bow skills, and get ready to jump back into Aloy’s postapocalyptic world sometime this year.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
  • This is the starting point of Usoni, the first postapocalyptic video game produced in Africa.
    — Clément Girardot, Wired, 20 May 2021
  • With its striking take on Earth’s next chapter, the novel avoids the shoals of postapocalyptic cliché.
    — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2025
  • How does a novelty candy end up in a postapocalyptic bunker hundreds of years later?
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Joel and Ellie’s world came alive in these new scenes, and felt rich and distinct from those of other postapocalyptic projects.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Who knew the Academy was so into postapocalyptic desert raves?
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Halle Berry stars as a troubled mother living what seems to be a postapocalyptic existence deep in the woods with her two young sons.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The show is a ritual — a series of rituals, in fact, though the context is not ancient but postapocalyptic.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Many people speculate that the site will become some sort of postapocalyptic bunker in case of civilization collapse.
    — Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
  • And not just any Secret Service agent but one of the few selected to live in this postapocalyptic society?
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Sight becomes a barrier in Bird Box, a postapocalyptic thriller where the enemy must go unseen, or else.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Dec. 2025
  • By midafternoon, the Mahindra was running out of gas, with stinking cannabis plants hanging out the windows like a prop in some postapocalyptic zombie movie.
    — Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Its force and fury stripped every tree of not just the leaves, but also the bark, leaving a rich agricultural region looking like the result of a postapocalyptic drought.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Bird Box is a postapocalyptic thriller based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Josh Malerman.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2019
  • There is always something postapocalyptic about Rick Owens, and this time around, his floor-sweeping sleeping-bag capes matched the general mood.
    — Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The Book of Eli just never creates enough character depth or dark ambience to sustain its sparse, postapocalyptic world.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2010
  • Of course, the first Mad Max, made in 1979, wasn’t really a postapocalyptic story.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 May 2024
  • After Deathstroke and Lex Luthor drink some bubbly, there’s a hard cut to a skeleton in the middle of a postapocalyptic wasteland.
    — Ryan Britt, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The new series follows a group of Nebraska teens raised in a surviving civilization of the postapocalyptic world.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The lyrics are quite appropriate for the movie, with David Byrne singing from the perspective of somebody living in a postapocalyptic setting.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 4 May 2021
  • Next to a limp rack of sleeveless tops stands a postapocalyptic forager-warrior mannequin in jeans, a faded plaid shirt, and a black baseball cap from the plus-size-women’s brand Torrid.
    — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • The first is a Turkish feature sci-fi, postapocalyptic movie called Grain, directed by Semih Kaplanoglu.
    — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The author of this newsletter has joined the legions of fans obsessed with the postapocalyptic story of a pantsless man and his talking cat, who have been forced to play in a dungeon crawler style video game, but for real!
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 5 June 2026
  • That’s because the second half of the episode is a postapocalyptic John Hughes comedy or an episode of Community.
    — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Ballard depicts a postapocalyptic future in which global warming has rendered much of the planet uninhabitable.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 20 May 2026
  • The Last of Us stars Pascal and Ramsey as a smuggler transporting a teenager girl across a postapocalyptic landscape.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2023
  • One of Sweet Tooth’s greatest strengths is its ability to infuse postapocalyptic horror with wonder and delight, which prevents the show from becoming too bleak and heavy.
    — Oliver Sava, Vulture, 5 June 2021
  • The Last of Us, Part 2 looks to be … a dark, brutal meditation on violence and power in a postapocalyptic landscape.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Dugin’s description of Russia after the war sounded postapocalyptic.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026

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