How to Use ice age in a Sentence

ice age

noun
Definition of ice agenext
  • More From The Post This tree survived the last ice age.
    — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • 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
  • Instead, this cooling is caused by a minor ice age that happened hundreds of years ago.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2019
  • After all, both lived primarily in cold regions during an ice age.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Thirteen thousand years ago, an ice age was ending, the Earth was warming, the oceans were rising.
    — Christopher Mooney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
  • But from a geologist's perspective, even current conditions are part of an ice age, since large ice sheets exist at the poles.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2018
  • 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
  • The immediate cause of the ice age was a drop in atmospheric carbon dioxide by around 8 parts per million.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2019
  • What’s next is not so much a trade war or even a cold war as the dawn of an ice age in relations between China and the United States.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 11 July 2018
  • If parts of the ocean can remain cold for hundreds of years after a small ice age, what will happen to the oceans when the planet warms? How long will that warming last in the ocean’s depths?
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2019
  • The Driftless region of Wisconsin, which the glaciers missed during the ice age, is marked by river valleys and bluffs, so farms tend to have less room to spread out.
    — Julie Bosman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2019
  • The wobble in our planet’s tilt affects how the sun’s energy is distributed across the Earth and can influence the frosty advance or retreat of ice ages.
    — National Geographic, 3 July 2019
  • This is likely because the planet went through a number of ice ages during this period, when plenty of water froze into ice and sea levels dropped dramatically.
    — National Geographic, 30 Apr. 2019
  • Dr Waltham argues that the Moon is just the right size to allow the Earth both a stable obliquity and poles warm enough to keep any ice ages relatively minor.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • The end of the last ice age sparked a steady climb in sea levels.
    — Jack Tamisiea, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2022
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Giant stem tetrapod was apex predator in Gondwanan late Palaeozoic ice age.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2024

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