NOUN
-
an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it
that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world - (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
How To Use day of reckoning In A Sentence
- Officials concerned with environmental policy predict that a day of reckoning will come.
- The day of reckoning has arrived with an obesity epidemic on our doorstep. The Sun
- It is rapidly approaching day of reckoning when it will totally exhaust its nuclear energy supply.
- The day of reckoning is coming for the water company directors.
- The day of reckoning is coming for the water company directors.
- I suppose it's the day of reckoning for him as it his first run over fences. The Sun
- The day of reckoning has past and somehow I managed to survive reasonably intact.
- If he were smart, he would be quiet because his day of reckoning is coming. Cheney hits 'radical' Obama
- We have survived yet another day of reckoning. Times, Sunday Times
- Their day of reckoning has arrived. Times, Sunday Times