How to Use the apocalypse in a Sentence

the apocalypse

noun
  • The game takes place years after the apocalypse.
    — Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
  • This unlikely duo has teamed up to save the world from the apocalypse.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Rezvani just built you a fortress of a pickup truck ready to take on the apocalypse.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 30 May 2026
  • There would be plenty of clothes still around from before the apocalypse.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Then, in less than an hour, the apocalypse cleans up after itself.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
  • War, famine, disease and death — all four horsemen of the apocalypse.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Waking up with a hangover in the apocalypse has got to be awful.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • What is the apocalypse but a chance to sing to yourself in the largest shower in the universe?
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
  • In a setting where so much is unknown (How did the apocalypse come about?
    — Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 14 Jan. 2026
  • This is the apocalypse, so this is far from the first time Ellie has killed someone.
    — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 12 May 2025
  • An ambassador's role is to build bridges—not to hasten the apocalypse.
    — David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • For many retailers, the apocalypse never hit as hard as feared.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2024
  • To most ordinary people, the apocalypse is a far cry from the demise of the office.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • This was not going to lead to the apocalypse and a mistake was made, it'll be corrected.
    — ABC News, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Oh, and Billie may or may not be the key to preventing the apocalypse.
    — Andy Swift, TVLine, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Who knew the harbinger of the end of days would look so glamorous while bringing about the apocalypse?
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Gay dads having to make an impossible choice to stave off the apocalypse?
    — Samantha Allen, Them, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Based on the video game franchise of the same name, the series is set two hundred years after the apocalypse.
    — Lexi Carson, Variety, 20 June 2024
  • Based on the video game franchise of the same name, the series is set two hundred years after the apocalypse.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Members were likely afraid to be left behind during the apocalypse and would do anything to stay with the group.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • We have already been told that Joel has done horrible things to survive the apocalypse.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Saucy and provocative thoughts on the internet won’t ignite the apocalypse.
    — Nicholas Clairmont, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2026
  • This is a novel that toys with the end of humanity, but the threshold to the apocalypse has seldom been so fun.
    — Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
  • For Lec, at a certain point, the threat of the apocalypse must have seemed as banal and routine as the dawn of a new morning.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
  • In a matter of days, the fungus has infected millions, and the apocalypse has begun.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The five teens must choose between stopping the apocalypse to save the planet or letting the world perish in order to start over from scratch.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
  • On the another hand, the apocalypse never happens overnight.
    — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In the film, four strangers appear at a remote cabin to tell two fathers and their daughter that one of them must die to prevent the apocalypse.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
  • Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, The Wasteland is a pretty bleak place to be.
    — The Deadline Team, Deadline, 10 June 2026

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