How to Use epoch in a Sentence

epoch

noun

• The development of the steam engine marked an important epoch in the history of industry.
• The Civil War era was an epoch in 19th-century U.S. history.
• The end of the long epoch of direct great-power interventions in Afghanistan has left a dangerous void.
  — Kamran Bokhari, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2022
• Call it the end of the neon era or the beginning of the LED epoch.
  — cleveland, 9 Feb. 2020
• The Year of the Jerk may well be the start of a new epoch of unbounded behavior.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• What Okun couldn’t know was that this epoch was nearing its end.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
• So much of the history of our epoch happened in Berlin.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Apr. 2023
• But many now believe this long epoch is drawing to a close.
  — G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
• The fossil dates to the late Oligocene epoch and is believed to be 24 million to 28 million years old.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022
• The dawn bear died as a young adult during the Oligocene epoch, as the Antarctic glacier was growing and the globe was cooling.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023
• And this giant isn’t some holdover from an ancient epoch.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
• Had the Earth really entered a new epoch, in the stratigraphic sense of the term?
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
• According to the fossil record, the Dimetrodon genus went extinct around the end of the Cisuralian epoch in the Permian.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2024
• In the skies over Ukraine, a new epoch in air warfare is emerging: drone-on-drone combat.
  — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
• My travels through the ages now returned me, for better or worse, to my own epoch.
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• Then came the Hadron epoch, when the first protons and neutrons formed from quarks, about 1 second after the Big Bang.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2017
• Diegoaelurus comes from the Eocene epoch, which stretched from 56 million to 34 million years ago.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022
• Titanoboa was long gone by the time the Amazon sea emerged about 18.4 million years ago during the Miocene epoch.
  — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
• His was an epoch of Empire and old Britain that is, definitively, no more.
  — Juliet Rieden, Town & Country, 10 June 2019
• This was the end of the era when everything mattered and the beginning of the epoch of cynicism.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• This epoch has been bad, but the next global threat (e.g. climate crisis) might be even worse.
  — Madhukar Pai, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Astronomers have studied this early epoch with telescopes on the ground and in space.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2021
• What are the qualities most needed in this epoch of the Anthropocene?
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• In the Pliocene epoch, the growth of ice at the poles led to frequent sea level changes and loss of important offshore habitats.
  — New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• Betting big on the fallout from epoch-making events, like the fall of the Berlin Wall, is George Soros’s preferred tactic.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Android phones have had it for what now feels like an entire epoch of the Earth, and now the iPhone does too: an always-on display.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
• But in just over three and a half minutes, an epoch’s worth of emotion circulates.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
• San Diego looked very different back in the Eocene epoch, from about 56 million to 34 million years ago.
  — Raegan Scharfetter, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2022
• Temperatures were a little warmer then, so the epoch could be a good preview of a warmer Earth.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2018
• During this time, pterosaurs would have existed from the Early Jurassic to the epoch’s end.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024