Example sentences for: apocalyptic

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

  • On both counts, prewar anti-clericalism and postwar apocalyptic angst gave the Surrealists and Dubuffet, respectively, historic urgency lacking in the gratuitous neo-primitivism of Ofili.

  • When you throw the die to resolve a battle and a 6 comes up, an "apocalyptic event"--Euphrates dries up, sky turns blood red interfering with air units, etc.--occurs.

  • Mickey Sabbath, the irreverent, renegade hero of Philip Roth's apocalyptic Sabbath's Theater , would hardly raise an eyebrow here.

  • But the film, a sort of apocalyptic Miltonian vaudeville, is among the most passionately religious and God-fearing ever made in this country.

  • Things looked "hot" when I left--from inside his "embassy," ROT leader Richard McLaren was busily faxing out apocalyptic maydays--but his hot blood turned to pink Jell-O.


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