Example sentences for: apocalyptic

How can you use “apocalyptic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger's apocalyptic action thriller gets spanked by the critics.

  • USA Today runs the Senate results on Page 8, leading instead with the FBI's quiet efforts to warn local police about the possibility that anti-government militias and hate groups will become increasingly dangerous in the coming year because of the apocalyptic significance some of them attribute to the new millennium.

  • Lately on the best-seller lists for the six apocalyptic novels in his "Left Behind" series, which have sold nearly 10 million copies, LaHaye has long been a household name among fundamentalists for his works on sexual and family life.

  • Four years later, when Savonarola declined to test the validity of his apocalyptic prophesies with an ordeal by fire, he was arrested, hanged, and ironically burned on the Piazza della Signoria.

  • If Culturebox were making a point, rather than manufacturing a conceit, it would be this: that these two extremes of contrarian opinion--Maslin's brittle cheerfulness and Siegel's apocalyptic dourness--have somehow brought their holders to the same lonely place.


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