How to Use ice age in a Sentence

ice age

noun

• The end of the last ice age sparked a steady climb in sea levels.
  — Jack Tamisiea, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2022
• More From The Post This tree survived the last ice age.
  — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
• The globe as a whole is now warmer than it’s been at almost any point since the end of the last ice age.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• The effect of this nodding on the planet’s seasons is one of the things which sets the rhythm of the ice ages.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• The results came as a shock: The ditch grass had grown thousands of years before the end of the last ice age.
  — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• The wood, which against all odds survived the last ice age, is likely black spruce.
  — Erin Adler, Star Tribune, 19 May 2021
• This can, in turn, drive ice ages and periods of warmth.
  — Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• As the ice ages ended, the Earth’s climate and many habitats changed, too.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
• Our own planet is still wobbling from the effects of the last ice age.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
• The tusk is believed to belong to a steppe mammoth from before the last ice age.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 15 July 2023
• The ice age relics are also often dotted with the tracks of bears, wolves, foxes, and moose that roam the park.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2022
• The flutings are grooves drawn by the fingers of ice age humans across the soft limestone cave walls.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
• During this mammoth’s life, sometime at the very end of the last ice age, the Earth was warming up.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
• These would have allowed primitive life forms to wait out the ice age.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 3 Dec. 2019
• Is the big one about to blow, blanketing the U.S. with ash and sending the Earth into a volcanic ice age?
  — Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
• Around the tail end of the last ice age, a female horned lark flitted into a frosty cave and met a tragic end.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
• Is the big one about to blow, blanketing the US with ash and sending the Earth into a volcanic ice age?
  — Candace Sutton, Fox News, 7 May 2018
• Toward the end of the last ice age, the lake began to dry up, and humans briefly occupied the wetland.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2022
• The new curve bumps the transition period at the end of the last ice age to 50 years earlier.
  — Megan I. Gannon, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The crash caused destructive firestorms and tsunamis that put the Earth into an ice age, causing much of the world's species to perish.
  — Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Both caves date to the Paleolithic, a turbulent time that followed the end of the last ice age.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 24 Oct. 2022
• Since the end of the last ice age, Chirikof has been mostly tundra-like: no trees, sparse low brush, tall grasses, and boggy.
  — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2023
• These ice age hunters, Bourgeon explains, would have carried the horse carcasses to the caves to be butchered.
  — Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
• The remains came not just from mammoths, but from ice age bison and horses.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
• The researchers knew, based on previous studies, that an ice age had occurred at the time.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
• However, the ice ages that drove us out of the trees, condemning us to a life that isn’t ours, were irreversible.
  — Ann Goldstein, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• For a few decades around World War II, the mining company unearthed many of the ice age bones and tusks that were sent to the museum.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
• The first sign that Erez Lieberman Aiden and his team were onto something special was the ice age beast’s hairdo.
  — Richard Stone, science.org, 11 July 2024
• However, the exact time of a day — one rotation of the Earth — varies due to lunar tides, climate impacts, and some other factors, such as the slow rebound of the Earth’s crust after the retreat of ice sheets formed in the last ice age.
  — Damian Carrington, Vox, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024