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Examples of ice age in a Sentence
changes that occurred during the last ice age
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Much later, during the last ice age around 20,000 years ago, massive glaciers advanced across the landscape, scraping and deepening the low-lying areas left behind by the hotspot.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
The Pleistocene was characterized by dramatic changes in climate, including a series of ice ages.
—Andre A. Naranjo, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
Like mammoths, mastodons disappeared toward the end of the last ice age, when a series of factors, including climate change and human hunting, drove many large animals to extinction, as Jess Thomson reports for Newsweek.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth plunged into a series of super ice ages.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
ice age
noun1
: a time of widespread glaciation
2
capitalized I&A
: the most recent such period in the earth's past
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