How to Use mammoth in a Sentence

mammoth

1 of 2 noun

• The baby mammoth was found frozen in permafrost in the Klondike gold fields in the Yukon.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 27 June 2022
• The bones are likely the remains of at least 14 mammoths.
  — Fox News, 7 Nov. 2019
• The unearthing of the mammoth proved the existence of a time before time.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2022
• The tusk is believed to belong to a steppe mammoth from before the last ice age.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 15 July 2023
• But the edges of the state were exposed -- and these areas tend to turn up mammoth remains.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 19 Mar. 2022
• In the new museum, the mammoth will be part of a scene where hunters are prepared to strike it.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2023
• Many people might be happy to pay to get up close to a proxy mammoth.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
• 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
• It was preserved beneath the adult mammoth’s skull and tusks.
  — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2022
• But a lot of its DNA carried on as part of the Columbia mammoth genome.
  — John Timmer, Wired, 21 Feb. 2021
• The tusk came from a male mammoth who lived to be about 28 years old during the last ice age in what is now Alaska.
  — Esther Megbel, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2021
• In contrast to the in utero years needed by a mammoth, the thylacine may only need a few weeks.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
• It has now been confirmed that the tusk, which measures more than three feet in length, is from a Columbian mammoth.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 23 Nov. 2021
• The last mammoth, for instance, died after the first pyramids were built.
  — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• The last mammoths lived in Arctic areas near or in what is now Alaska.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
• And indeed, the late 7-foot-4 mammoth has more than double the career blocks that Gobert does.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Nov. 2021
• Exhibits include a full-size pterosaur, a wooly mammoth, and touchable wolves and bears.
  — Victoria Barber, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
• The two hybridized to produce the Columbian mammoth, but no one knows exactly when.
  — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• In this one, a mammoth, a saber-toothed cat and a slot team up to return a human baby to its tribe (and the poor Scrat just tries to get his acorn).
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
• Both a giant sloth and a mammoth ambled across the humans’ path, the trackway reveals.
  — Katherine Kornei, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2020
• Food scientists grew cultured meat from cells of the mammoth.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
• By about 6,000 years after this mammoth’s death, the species was almost extinct.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
• What to order: The fried catfish is salt-pepper juju, and the meatloaf’s here’s mammoth.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 11 July 2023
• Dutch researchers were able to create a massive meatball of flesh grown using the DNA of a wooly mammoth this week.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2023
• The mammoth’s jawbone, containing molars the size of a man’s shoe, was collected at the same site.
  — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• Our hominid ancestors took about two days to hunt down a wooly mammoth or saber-toothed tiger.
  — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• The mammoths aren't enough to keep Gusev in the countryside, however.
  — Anton Troianovski, Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Oct. 2019
• The youngest mammoth fossils, found on Wrangel Island north of Siberia, are from animals that were alive 3,700 years ago.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2022
• One camp held that the mammoth was among the first victims of anthropogenic extinction.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• Like the rings of a tree, ivory can offer clues about a mammoth’s history, based on the presence of certain chemicals.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024

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mammoth

2 of 2 adjective

• Renovating the house is a mammoth undertaking.
• The mammoth, naked from the midriff up, looked as though he were headed to the pool.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Further down the road, Musk wants to use the mammoth Starships to send crowds to Mars.
  — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 9 Feb. 2023
• Even calling the creation mammoth meat is a bit of a stretch.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
• The Trojans opened a mammoth 42-7 gap over the Tigers at halftime.
  — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2023
• We were impressed with Taylor and his staff, but the task ahead is mammoth.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
• Sorting out that mess is just one of the mammoth tasks the election winner will face.
  — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• There is the mammoth Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, of course.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2022
• Next week, the mystery of the ocean floor, a mammoth mapping project, submersibles, shipwrecks, and more.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Jan. 2024
• To bring in the supplies required to get them into shelter is a mammoth task.
  — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2023
• Still an tragedy but once again a mammoth fail of our mental health crisis!
  — Amanda Morris, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• The mammoth stage and video screen compounded that feeling.
  — Sean Burch, SPIN, 29 May 2023
• His mammoth ovation from the crowd on hand Saturday was well-earned after decades on the mic.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 1 Apr. 2023
• The mammoth storm has tropical-storm-force winds that extend 520 miles from the center.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
• Their award-winning sluggers, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, hit mammoth home runs.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
• Only Miss Peggy was permitted to know the details of the mammoth task.
  — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023
• Remember, this is all still considered to be part of a mammoth wave III in the bog picture.
  — Ramki Ramakrishnan, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• The region of Siberia Colossal had in mind, Sakha, has a thriving underground trade in mammoth tusks.
  — Andy Lamey, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
• What's in the mammoth $1.7 trillion long-term spending package?
  — CBS News, 20 Dec. 2022
• Remember all those mammoth long-term contracts the Padres signed?
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
• At the start of February, the Fed continued to pump the brakes on mammoth interest rate hikes that began in March 2022.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• This marks her fifth time headlining at the mammoth AT&T Stadium since 2011, but on this trip, she’s sold out three nights.
  — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Ukraine has also been on the receiving end of a mammoth flow of Western weapons and military aid.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• These mammoth events aren’t just for the biggest brands, or even those that would typically align with sports content and fans.
  — Sergii Denysenko, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Months later, experts now say the find is one of the most complete mammoth skeletons ever discovered in the state.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
• Johnson’s crack-up inserts a nagging question mark into the very idea of mammoth land-art projects.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• But for some, making such a trip would be a mammoth undertaking.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• 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
• But the most recent mammoth fossil found on mainland Alaska is one unearthed near the town of Chicken.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
• The project website lists ten main arguments for putting a mammoth-like animal back on the tundra.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024