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
• 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
• Dust from the asteroid caused a disruption in the amount of sunlight Earth received, which led to an ice age.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
• New find suggests humans in North America pre-date the last great ice age.
  — Devlin Gandy, National Geographic, 22 July 2020
• Giant stem tetrapod was apex predator in Gondwanan late Palaeozoic ice age.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024