Example sentences for: apocalyptic

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

  • Of course, we may yet live up to our own publicity and pull off something apocalyptic like a runaway greenhouse that sterilises the Earth.

  • The Yankee's secularized Puritanism combines an enthusiasm for social reform--such as abolitionism, Prohibition, women's suffrage, civil rights, eugenics, and the anti-smoking crusade--with an often-priggish moralism and an apocalyptic horror of "corruption."

  • Based on a 1950s sci-fi novel, this film about an apocalyptic war between human beings and giant bugs renews the debate: Is director Peter Verhoeven ( Robocop ) a postmodern genius or a purveyor of schlock?

  • After the hostage exchange, talks continued but have been unsuccessful, while McLaren's rhetoric has grown increasingly apocalyptic.

  • Which, if Culturebox was illustrating a point, rather than manufacturing a conceit, was it: that these two extreme of contrarian critical opinion--Maslin's brittle cheerfulness and Siegel's apocalyptic dourness--have somehow brought their holders to the same lonely place.


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