How to Use woolly mammoth in a Sentence

woolly mammoth

noun

• White guilt comes with the white skin; the evil is frozen in time—like the sin of Adam, like the woolly mammoth in the glacier.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 16 May 2021
• The island was one of the last refuges for woolly mammoths on Earth.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2017
• The idea that woolly mammoths might once again roam the Earth made headlines around the world.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• The timeline for the woolly mammoth is still five to six years, Lamm said.
  — Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2022
• The same goes for Viking warriors, woolly mammoths, and laser-eyed demons.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 July 2024
• In 2015, a farmer near Chelsea uncovered the bones of a woolly mammoth.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
• Like a dinosaur … or a saber tooth … or a woolly mammoth.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 17 Dec. 2019
• The school districts get to name their fossils and can use them to learn about woolly mammoths.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
• The data could also play into the debate about the demise of the woolly mammoth after the end of the last ice age.
  — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• During the frigid days of the Pleistocene, the woolly mammoth munched on a variety of Ice Age plants.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021
• Adult male woolly mammoths reached a height of 12 feet at the shoulder, with a thick hide, shaggy coat and tusks up to 12 feet long.
  — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• Think trilobites to the woolly mammoth with T. rex in between.
  — Susan Faust, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2018
• The last woolly mammoth likely roamed around 4,000 years ago.
  — Jonathan Shipley, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
• Summon up a picture for us from the mists of time, and explain the importance of the woolly mammoth.
  — National Geographic, 9 June 2018
• There is a mural of woolly mammoths and a life-size ancient bison full of hair and fur.
  — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• To put that fact in perspective, woolly mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built in Egypt.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
• The species is the closest living relative to the woolly mammoth.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• With the school year just around the corner, a 12-year-old Ohio boy will surely have the best item to bring for show-and-tell: an ancient woolly mammoth tooth.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Five-year building plans have gone the way of dinosaurs, dodo birds and woolly mammoths.
  — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
• Their ‘model species’ is the woolly mammoth for a number of reasons.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
• Gravettian hunters made spears to kill woolly mammoths and other big game.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• The Pet Hair Eraser is the best handheld vacuum if your pet sheds like a woolly mammoth.
  — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 17 Mar. 2022
• Church focused not on the passenger pigeon but on his own pet project, the woolly mammoth.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• Not only is the place known for its grits, gravy and maple syrup, it is filled with old-timey things and has a wood-burning fireplace that can thaw a woolly mammoth.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• That story, published today as a paper in Science, is the first to map out the life of a single woolly mammoth.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
• For starters, unlike the woolly mammoth, the northern white rhino is not extinct — yet.
  — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
• The plate is a full sheeting design, with a light blue background, a strip of yellow and the IATA's website at the bottom (iceagetrail.org), and a woolly mammoth along the left side.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2023
• Columbian mammoths were titan mammals that weighed more than ten tons and stood about 15 feet tall at the shoulder—larger than the woolly mammoth, which lived to the north.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2024
• An extremely rare woolly mammoth bone has been found on a beach in Scotland.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 13 June 2018
• Phillips confirmed the tusk belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant relative of the woolly mammoth.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024