How to Use the Ice Age in a Sentence

the Ice Age

noun

• The lake bed is essentially a 790-square-mile bathtub — the size of four Lake Tahoes — that dates back to the Ice Age.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• But as the Ice Age drew to a close, bogs and shrubs began encroaching on their habitat.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• The Vestonice, by contrast, did not survive the Ice Age.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Three months have passed since the lake, which dates to the Ice Age, re-emerged in the basin that once held the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River.
  — Shawn Hubler Mark Abramson, New York Times, 25 June 2023
• Others, like the Eagle segment of the Ice Age Trail, provide beautiful scenery in spring.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
• Horses were well equipped to weather the Ice Age, their hard hoofs able to break through snow and ice to expose grasses underneath.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• After the flood subsides, the only immediate effect the Ice Age will have on us down here will be more rain.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• But perhaps the most astonishing find was a seven-foot-long mammoth tusk that had been preserved since the Ice Age.
  — Kyle Morris, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2024
• But such straightforward reasoning might be a stretch too far for someone concerned with the taxpayers of the Ice Age.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
• But using new techniques, and with different assumptions, the children of the Ice Age are being given a voice.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2023
• And this giant is certainly relevant to the origins of the later mammoth species that spread across the Northern Hemisphere during the Ice Age.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• Nowell explains how, with the help of new archaeological approaches, this is changing, and the children of the Ice Age are getting a voice.
  — Longreads, 17 Feb. 2023
• Sitting in the pile of rock — and somehow intact after being excavated and transported across the mine by heavy machinery — was the tusk of a mammoth that had been buried since the Ice Age.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• Arctic ground squirrels survived after the Ice Age and still inhabit Yukon and Alaska today.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• Per a statement, the archaeologists found the artifacts preserved in sediment deposits from the Ice Age on a hillside at the edge of the Medway Valley.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
• Were human influences on the dirt beneath our feet as significant as when the Pleistocene epoch began, 2.6 million years ago, as the Ice Age tightened its grip?
  — Jan Zalasiewicz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
• In actuality, the Neanderthals’ unique anatomy allowed the species to survive the coldest conditions of the Ice Age in Europe.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2023
• The harsh realities of the Ice Age – scarce food, rising population and the limitations of hunter-gatherer life drove tribes to eat each other for sheer survival.
  — Avya Chaudhary, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024
• There are more than 50 specialty plate designs available in Wisconsin, including a recent addition that supports the Ice Age Trail.
  — Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2024
• This unusually good tribal museum bookends war, conquest, dispossession, and a new dawn with a hunt for woolly mammoths in the Ice Age and the ca-ching of slot machines at the nearby Pequot casino.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Formed during the Ice Age and discovered in the early 1900s, this fascinating subterranean world features dramatic limestone formations (hanging stalactites and protruding stalagmites) surrounding a deep, crystal-clear lake.
  — Megan Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024