apocalyptically
- a word derived from apocalyptic.
Example Sentences
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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
In Leave the World Behind, an unsettling 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam about a vacation gone apocalyptically wrong, a New York City family heads out to Long Island by the beach.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2023
I wave goodbye as he pushes off like a cheery Einstein into a bizarre late-May mixture of rain and sleet — a scene as ordinary and apocalyptically surreal as his fiction, or America in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
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
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
