Sample Sentences for
apocalypse
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    The novel imagined an apocalypse brought on by climate collapse and global famine.
    apocalypse = world-ending disaster
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    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)
    apocalypse = an event involving terrible destruction
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    The community was beyond the fringe, a vision of post-apocalypse America.†  (source)
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    I even started getting into zombie apocalypse stuff, and none of it ever bothered me.†  (source)
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    It's a fifteen-thousand-word apology set on post-apocalyptic Jedha.†  (source)
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    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)
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    After the apocalypse, they'll have three kids, you decide.†  (source)
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    Everything was new and apocalyptic.†  (source)
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    Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses.†  (source)
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    Other signs of the apocalypse proliferate.†  (source)
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    Apocalyptic imagery filled the weekly sermons and the Left Behind books (one of the best-selling fiction series of all time, which I devoured).†  (source)
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    Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault.†  (source)
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    He'd thought they were the usual zombie-apocalypse-type dreams he'd always had, until he noticed the people were Indian.†  (source)
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