apocalypse

in a sentence

The novel imagined an apocalypse brought on by climate collapse and global famine.

It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, and, not just in Marin, but in the whole region, in the Bay Area, and in many other places too, places both near and far, the apocalypse appeared to have arrived and yet it was not apocalyptic, which is to say that while the changes were jarring they were not the end, and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plausible desirable futures…  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

I even started getting into zombie apocalypse stuff, and none of it ever bothered me.  (source) R. J. Palacio, The Julian Chapter: A Wonder Story, 2014

The community was beyond the fringe, a vision of post-apocalypse America.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

At my age you indulge in these apocalyptic visions.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses.†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

Last night had been a surreal juxtaposition, jumping from a dreamscape of steam and candles and Barry White, and into a nightmare straight from a zombie apocalypse—a darkened lobby lit by headlamps, screaming and cursing, guns being waved around while a ragged, dirty gang of humans pressed against a glass wall, banging, begging to get inside.†  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

It's a fifteen-thousand-word apology set on post-apocalyptic Jedha.†  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

A Europe that knew how to preserve its eternal treasures would coolly, calmly proceed with the agenda of classical reason and ignore any proletarian apocalypses that might be envisioned here or there.†  (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

It's an alien apocalypse!†  (source) Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave, 2013

Everything was new and apocalyptic.†  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault.†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

Maybe I'll even confess the truth, that I rode in with the horsemen and beheld the apocalypse, but still I'll insist I was only a captive witness.†  (source) Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998