How to Use ice age in a Sentence

ice age

noun
  • An ice age leads to an ice thaw.
    — Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
  • But how did Earth get out of this ice age?
    — Regina G. Barber, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The end of the last ice age sparked a steady climb in sea levels.
    — Jack Tamisiea, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2022
  • By blocking sunlight, those rings may have caused an ice age.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The wood, which against all odds survived the last ice age, is likely black spruce.
    — Erin Adler, Star Tribune, 19 May 2021
  • Our own planet is still wobbling from the effects of the last ice age.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • These would have allowed primitive life forms to wait out the ice age.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 3 Dec. 2019
  • 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 tusk is believed to belong to a steppe mammoth from before the last ice age.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 15 July 2023
  • The remains came not just from mammoths, but from ice age bison and horses.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
  • As the ice ages ended, the Earth’s climate and many habitats changed, too.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The flutings are grooves drawn by the fingers of ice age humans across the soft limestone cave walls.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The lake was formed by glaciers during the last ice age more than 10,000 years ago.
    — Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2026
  • The researchers will next turn their study to how anthropogenic changes will impact the start of the next ice age.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
  • 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 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
  • As the last ice age drew to a close, something dramatic stirred beneath the surface.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 11 July 2025
  • The researchers knew, based on previous studies, that an ice age had occurred at the time.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • If not stopped it has the potential to cause an extinction-level global ice age.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The logo represents the city, as mammoths used to live in Utah during the last ice age.
    — Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
  • 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
  • Ice sheets once covered much of the Northern Hemisphere during the ice age.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 22 May 2025
  • The film, in which three massive storms plunge the earth into a new ice age, goes beyond the realms of reality.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025
  • However, the ice ages that drove us out of the trees, condemning us to a life that isn’t ours, were irreversible.
    — Ann Goldstein, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • These ice age hunters, Bourgeon explains, would have carried the horse carcasses to the caves to be butchered.
    — Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • This part of the carbon cycle has helped Earth recover from past ice ages and avoid runaway warming.
    — Morgan Underwood, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025

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