How to Use the Ice Age in a Sentence
the Ice Age
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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
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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
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The Vestonice, by contrast, did not survive the Ice Age.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
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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
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Others, like the Eagle segment of the Ice Age Trail, provide beautiful scenery in spring.
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Arctic ground squirrels survived after the Ice Age and still inhabit Yukon and Alaska today.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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