Explore Doomsday through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like destiny or doom. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Doomsday meaning
- The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.
- Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.
- Any day of great death and destruction; end of the world; an apocalypse.
Synonyms of Doomsday
Using Doomsday
- The main meaning on this page is: The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times. | Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution. | Any day of great death and destruction; end of the world; an apocalypse.
- Useful related words include: day of reckoning, destiny, doom, day.
- In the example corpus, doomsday often appears in combinations such as: the doomsday, doomsday clock, of doomsday.
Context around Doomsday
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Doomsday
- In this selection, "doomsday" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fiscal, dead, clock, plot and plane stand out and add context to how "doomsday" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a fiscal doomsday machine that and and the doomsday clock almost. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "doomsday" sits close to words such as als, antioch and aptly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with doomsday
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It was like doomsday. (4 words)
Is there a doomsday bunker underneath the Denver airport? (9 words)
Ciclope hit a Doomsday Clothesline on Raju for a nearfall at 11:00. (13 words)
Call me naïve if you will but I honestly believe if we all applied this simple principle to our affairs the world would be in a far better place than it is now and maybe the hands of the Doomsday Clock could be moved back for at least a day. (50 words)
As Cold War tensions ramped up in the early ‘80s, the band offered a timely warning on lead single “2 Minutes to Midnight,” inspired by the Doomsday Clock that predicts the likelihood of human-made global catastrophe. (37 words)
It is the same crack team of firearms experts who shot dead doomsday preppers Gareth Train, his wife Stacey and brother Nathaniel on December 4 after the trio fatally ambushed two officers at their booby-trapped property. (37 words)
Is there a doomsday bunker underneath the Denver airport? (9 words)
It’s been a while so I figured with the State of the Union, Chinese spy balloons and the Doomsday Clock almost to midnight what could it hurt? (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
A jury has reached an unanimous guilty verdict following the five-week murder trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, accused of killing two of her children in a doomsday plot.
Although originally intended to warn of the threat of nuclear Armageddon, the Doomsday Clock also takes into account the likelihood of other emerging threats such as climate change and advances in biotechnology and artificial intelligence.
And last night, as Biden arrived in the country, the "doomsday plane" was spotted heading into UK airspace.
As Cold War tensions ramped up in the early ‘80s, the band offered a timely warning on lead single “2 Minutes to Midnight,” inspired by the Doomsday Clock that predicts the likelihood of human-made global catastrophe.
But it was around this time that Vallow was reading Mr Daybell’s doomsday books and friends say her behaviour started to change.
Call me naïve if you will but I honestly believe if we all applied this simple principle to our affairs the world would be in a far better place than it is now and maybe the hands of the Doomsday Clock could be moved back for at least a day.
Ciclope hit a Doomsday Clothesline on Raju for a nearfall at 11:00.
Doomsday Delayed (2008), John H. Rubel, who later served as McNamara’s assistant Secretary of Defense, recalls the first high-level presentation of such a scenario in spring 1960.
Doomsday writer Mr Daybell and Tammy married in 1990 and had five children together.
Headlines have been near to doomsday-prophecies, with expectations seemingly that things will be going from bad to worse, as dominoes in the financial sectors start coming down - at least, supposedly.
Historically, the furthest away from midnight the Doomsday Clock has ever been was in 1991 when it was set at 17 minutes before the hour.
His words pirouetted with insolent conviction, inciting more doomsday predictions across his WhatsApp forum.
Hundreds of people are expected to gather at an Idaho courthouse Monday morning as attorneys begin selecting 18 potential jurors for the trial of a woman charged in what prosecutors say was a doomsday-focused plot.
I didn’t come here to talk about Google’s I/O presentation, SEO, or the doomsday impacts of AI.
In addition to sea ice extent, scientists are closely monitoring the Thwaites Glacier, also known as the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ which is currently responsible for around 4% of global sea level rise.
In short, the Uniparty has seconded the nation’s finances to a fiscal doomsday machine that is literally unstoppable.
Is there a doomsday bunker underneath the Denver airport?
It is the same crack team of firearms experts who shot dead doomsday preppers Gareth Train, his wife Stacey and brother Nathaniel on December 4 after the trio fatally ambushed two officers at their booby-trapped property.
It’s been a while so I figured with the State of the Union, Chinese spy balloons and the Doomsday Clock almost to midnight what could it hurt?
It was like doomsday.
Common combinations with doomsday
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the doomsday 44×
- doomsday clock 21×
- of doomsday 15×
- doomsday scenario 11×
- in doomsday 10×
- doomsday machine 7×
- doomsday predictions 5×
- doomsday scenarios 5×
- doomsday and 5×
- doomsday device 5×