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 researchers searched one-tenth of the entire sky visible from Earth and found just one quasar from this early epoch.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2017
• Fourteen years ago— a virtual Pleistocene epoch ago— there were 49 such starts!
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Baltimore needs a way to state, repeatedly and clearly, its desire to end this epoch.
  — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• The bottom of the chunk was a frozen black mass, the remains of ancient plant life that contains stored carbon from another epoch.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Nov. 2017
• Deep thinkers in ancient Greece and Rome recognized fossils as the remains of life-forms from earlier epochs.
  — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• Glimpsing the early universe Much remains unknown about the epoch of reionization, such as what sources of light caused reionization.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2017
• Kurzweil is spared the indignity of attempting to explain what this means, because the sixth epoch and its mysteries remain in the distant offing.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• Flöge’s contributions were seen as more niche, which pigeonholed her to a specific epoch of Austrian history.
  — Anna Furman, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Sep. 2017
• The objects offer a glimpse of life during the American Revolution, and will be part of classroom lessons that help kids travel back to that epoch of history.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• Call it the end of the neon era or the beginning of the LED epoch.
  — cleveland, 9 Feb. 2020
• The worldwide Socialist revolution has already dawned...the Russian revolution accomplished by you has prepared the way and opened a new epoch.
  — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Holocene epoch that followed the last glaciation is an Anthropocene or, given the catalytic role of fire, a Pyrocene.
  — Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024