How to Use prehistory in a Sentence

prehistory

noun

• We are learning about the prehistory of North America.
• The exhibit will cover the prehistory of the region up to the present.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2019
• The next, blinding pain, a crunch, and then darkness — dead at the paws of one of prehistory’s greatest carnivores.
  — Riley Black, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2021
• That gives the first glimpse of a type of socially complex household in prehistory.
  — Megan Gannon, National Geographic, 10 Oct. 2019
• This is true for the students of prehistory as much as ecologists.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2011
• Everyone has to fight through great thickets of prehistory, and not just the dinosaurs.
  — Tom Shone, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2017
• Over the broad sweep of prehistory and then history, pet keeping went through two distinct stages.
  — Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018
• Previews of his design show a panoramic view of Los Angeles from prehistory to the present.
  — Doug Smithsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
• And the lab refrigerators are filled with bones from 2,000 more denizens of prehistory.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• Sicily has never been terribly distant from the rest of Italy, and there could have been a land bridge connecting the two in prehistory.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2021
• Every parent has a prehistory that none of their children can know.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2022
• The effort is bringing to light the landscape and prehistory of a lost homeland of ancient Europeans.
  — Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, 30 Jan. 2020
• Taking on the role of Sabina in this messy epic by Thornton Wilder, nebulously set between prehistory and the end of the world, is a hard enough task for any actor.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• Judaism, Christianity and Islam—and home to dozens of the most valuable relics of prehistory.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 12 July 2017
• The millions who live in these cities, though, know that there’s a whole prehistory to their modernist urban experiments.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
• Along with the basics — the space was designed by César Pelli, constructed in 1988 — the history lingered on the prehistory.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 17 June 2018
• Anthony Murphy, an author of books on Irish prehistory, made the find using a drone.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
• In the prehistory of human creativity, the invention of drawing combines a new skill and a new tool.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
• Modern humans and Neanderthals met—and made love, or at least babies—at some point in prehistory.
  — Bymichael Price, science.org, 13 Oct. 2022
• At one point in our prehistory, the human population might have dropped as low as a few thousand people.
  — WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
• The result is a prehistory of one of the most transfixing and agonizing celebrities of the 21st century.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• Jon’s father is Rhaegar Targaryen, the long-dead older brother of Dany who ran off with Lyanna during the show’s prehistory.
  — Jeremy Egner, The Seattle Times, 14 July 2017
• During this window of prehistory, the path between the continents was passable by sea.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2020
• Some kind of cognitive advance in human prehistory could have launched both skills.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
• His chapter on the physical topography gives insight on what was understood at the time about the prehistory of the region.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 8 May 2022
• His prehistory of Ireland itself arises from a ghostly fault-line viewed from Errisbeg Hill, and the telltale emergence of crystalline rocks.
  — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• Over the expansive timespan of prehistory, these added up to a sudden shift in the direction of the animals’ evolution.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
• The megadrought is as bad as or worse than droughts known from prehistory, the study’s authors say, based on modern weather observations, 1,200 years of tree-ring data and dozens of climate models.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• Audiences learned to link modern art to prehistory and inquire about Neanderthal DNA.
  — Stefanos Geroulanos, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2024
• Dendrochronology dated the poles to prehistory, and excitement grew when preliminary digs unearthed fish traps, bronze swords and spearheads.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024