Example Sentences

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Just because Milton didn’t apocalyptically decimate the Tampa Bay area doesn’t mean that it still wasn’t a full-fledged disaster for a region that was already reeling from Hurricane Helene two weeks prior.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2024

Near the sun, these solar storms are apocalyptically intense—so strong that they can erode a planet’s atmosphere.

From Scientific American • Oct. 13, 2023

When the outdoor dining program turned most of the city into a street party in the summer of 2020, Midtown was apocalyptically quiet.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2021

Huntington Beach used to boast the nickname Oil City, and famous 1920s photos depict beachgoers in the shadow of towering wooden oil derricks that seemed to brood apocalyptically over the coast.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2021

But on the whole, he insisted, this kind of apocalyptically motivated buyer represented a vanishingly small proportion of the market.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2018