How to Use epoch in a Sentence

epoch

noun
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  • 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 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
  • In the skies over Ukraine, a new epoch in air warfare is emerging: drone-on-drone combat.
    — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Android phones have had it for what now feels like an entire epoch of the Earth, and now the iPhone does too: an always-on display.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
  • But in just over three and a half minutes, an epoch’s worth of emotion circulates.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • San Diego looked very different back in the Eocene epoch, from about 56 million to 34 million years ago.
    — Raegan Scharfetter, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2022
  • So in the grand scheme of tennis history, this could go down as the Slam that turned the page on the Roger-Rafa-Serena epoch of tennis.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2021
  • In that way, the celestial event could have cooled the climate and helped initiate the ice ages 2.5 million years ago, at the start of the Pleistocene epoch.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2021
  • The analogy between our own epoch and the decline of Rome, for example, was much discussed in the 1990s.
    — Susan Hanssen, National Review, 4 July 2022
  • In doing so, Miguel is trying to build an identity for what is clearly a new epoch in his life.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • GoldenEye, then, wouldn’t just have to be Bond for a new decade, but for a new epoch in which the world had irrevocably changed.
    — Jack King, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • These elephant ancestors may have cropped up during the Miocene epoch in Africa around 22 million years ago.
    — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The fires of 2020 made unblinklingly clear for all those who had missed the memos nature had been sending what such an epoch might mean.
    — Stephen Pyne, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2020
  • In the classical epoch, man’s speech and his thoughts were directed outward, to people who gathered to listen in the squares and the agoras.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
  • During the late Eocene epoch, between 38 million and 34 million years ago, a glob of tacky resin oozed out of one of these trees and dripped down, ensnaring the flower.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The mastodon pulled from the Indiana muck now lives in the state museum, looming over visitors, a stand-in for his entire species and epoch.
    — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • An epoch in which pajamas on the red carpet are just as welcomed as as an outfit-matching mask.
    — Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The working group’s members also voted this month on what rank the Anthropocene should have in the timeline: an epoch, an age of the Holocene or something else.
    — Raymond Zhong, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The working group’s members also voted this month on what rank the Anthropocene should have in the timeline: an epoch, an age of the Holocene, or something else.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Second, the moment when the tech-firm CEO draws up the plans, lines up the materials and creates the crowd-pleasing, epoch-making product.
    — Steven Sinofsky, WSJ, 17 June 2022

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