How to Use ice age in a Sentence

ice age

noun
Definition of ice agenext
  • As the ice ages ended, the Earth’s climate and many habitats changed, too.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Their study may help explain why tail weaponry has gone missing since dinosaurs and some ice age animals went extinct.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • In fact, subsequent research indicates that 80 or more floods ravaged the scablands near the end of the last ice age.
    — Michael Melford, National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2017
  • The last ice age began in the Pleistocene and ended ten thousand years ago, when Iceland was covered in a massive ice sheet thousands of feet thick.
    — Lacy M. Johnson, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2016
  • Removing the greenhouse gas caused glaciers to creep forward and sea levels to drop, plunging the planet into an ice age that wiped out 85 percent of all marine species.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Mammoths and other ice age animals are routinely dragged out of the permafrost in relatively good condition, with their soft tissues preserved.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 11 July 2024
  • This phenomenon may have resulted from repeating pulses of volcanism along mid-ocean ridges, which previous research has linked to cycles of ice ages and warming.
    — Terri Cook, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
  • For reasons that are still poorly understood, the planet's temperatures plummeted, ushering in two ice ages in rapid succession.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2017
  • The researchers speculate in their paper that the rise in oxygen, accompanied by a lowering in carbon dioxide, might have been one factor that led to these catastrophic ice ages.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2017
  • Understanding temperature and greenhouse gas shifts through those ice ages could also offer insights into Earth’s future climate.
    — Katherine Mast, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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

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