How to Use mastodon in a Sentence

mastodon

noun

• There were moose and elk antlers and the upper jawbone of a mastodon.
  — Jon Meacham, House Beautiful, 1 Oct. 2013
• Some from the early years of the mastodon's life and some from its final years.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2022
• To find out, the team brought in researchers who have studied mastodon remains in the U.S. and Siberia.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• One of the stones features what appears to be a petroglyph of a mastodon.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
• During the Pleistocene, each of them lives the dream and single-handedly kills a mastodon.
  — William Von Hippel, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2019
• This isn’t the first time the museum has encountered remains of a mastodon.
  — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• Two months later, a work crew uncovered a massive mastodon skull buried in the ground.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 3 Mar. 2018
• The find was unique because the mastodon was a juvenile, likely between 10 and 20 years old, per MLive.com.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
• The mastodon's fossil was first found on a farm in 1998 by Kent and Janne Buesching, who were mining for peat on their property.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 June 2022
• Don’t miss the mastodon molar or the oil painting of Hylan Plaza (really).
  — New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• Today the stately mastodon sits waiting for crowds to return.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2020
• But the technique was not very reliable at the time, so the Cerutti mastodon remained an enigma.
  — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• But the Aucilla mastodons weren’t just sitting ducks for human hunters.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
• Each anvil stone was surrounded by mastodon-bone fragments and flakes of stone, as if someone had been crushing bone on the anvil.
  — Traci Watson, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2017
• Defined by the long trunks and massive size, Proboscidea's ancestry include the mastodon of Ice Age fame.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
• The mastodon fossils looked very different from the other bones nearby.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• Then Jiminy Cricket pops up — yep — and another town is overrun with mastodons.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
• One problem in determining who exactly killed that mastodon rests on finding the bones of the group that did it.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2017
• Among them were the remains of dire wolves, camels, horses and gophers—but the most intriguing were those belonging to an adult male mastodon.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 Apr. 2017
• One big surprise was finding DNA from the mastodon, an extinct species that looks like a mix between an elephant and a mammoth, Kjær said.
  — Maddie Burakoff, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2022
• In November, crews found a 3-foot section of tusk from an adult mammoth; teeth of a mastodon; and a nearly intact skull of a young mammoth.
  — Danielle Hart, CNN, 18 July 2017
• The champagne-toevening-gowns mastodon, home to Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, among many others, had disclosed a stake of 17% and rising.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2020
• The place also showcased a famous mastodon, unearthed by the Peale family in upstate New York in the early 1800s.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 1 May 2017
• Hard to believe an osotogari move is going to keep a 350-pound mastodon from slamming your glass body’s head on the turf.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
• This encourages frequent short visits, which are the best way to view masterpieces or mastodons.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• In the culminating scene, six actors maneuver the bones of a mastodon, stepping the beast forward, one enormous limb at a time.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 1 May 2017
• While researchers say mammoth tusks and bones are more commonly spotted in Alaska, mastodon remains have been found in the far north, as well.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017
• Though he was killed by another mastodon, Fred’s body bears witness to this growing presence of humans.
  — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• For example, experts have identified a suite of characteristics that set sauropods apart from the mastodons and giant rhinos of the Cenozoic.
  — Riley Black, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
• At the moment, however, whether mastodons experienced musth or whether their tusks preserve hormones is unknown.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024