How to Use mammoth in a Sentence

mammoth

1 of 2 noun
  • Many people might be happy to pay to get up close to a proxy mammoth.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
  • It was preserved beneath the adult mammoth’s skull and tusks.
    — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • These were places rich with prey like bison, camels, horses and even young mammoths.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The tusk is believed to belong to a steppe mammoth from before the last ice age.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 15 July 2023
  • But the edges of the state were exposed -- and these areas tend to turn up mammoth remains.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Our hominid ancestors took about two days to hunt down a wooly mammoth or saber-toothed tiger.
    — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • In the new museum, the mammoth will be part of a scene where hunters are prepared to strike it.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The last mammoth, for instance, died after the first pyramids were built.
    — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • Food scientists grew cultured meat from cells of the mammoth.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
  • With these tools, scientists may one day trace how microbes and mammoths co-evolved.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
  • She's excited by the results - and not just for mammoths.
    — NPR, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Exhibits include a full-size pterosaur, a wooly mammoth, and touchable wolves and bears.
    — Victoria Barber, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
  • The unearthing of the mammoth proved the existence of a time before time.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2022
  • In contrast to the in utero years needed by a mammoth, the thylacine may only need a few weeks.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
  • This particular type of mammoth is believed to have lived in herds.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 15 July 2023
  • Humans may have used these traps to separate mammoths from their herds, leaving them as easy prey.
    — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The baby mammoth was found frozen in permafrost in the Klondike gold fields in the Yukon.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 27 June 2022
  • It has now been confirmed that the tusk, which measures more than three feet in length, is from a Columbian mammoth.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 23 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • The last mammoths lived in Arctic areas near or in what is now Alaska.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
  • Colossal's de-extinction projects now span dodos, dire wolves, mammoths, and moas.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Both a giant sloth and a mammoth ambled across the humans’ path, the trackway reveals.
    — Katherine Kornei, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Sabertooth cats also lived among the dire wolf, stag-moose, muskox, giant short-face bears, bison, and mammoth.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
  • One camp held that the mammoth was among the first victims of anthropogenic extinction.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The two hybridized to produce the Columbian mammoth, but no one knows exactly when.
    — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The tusk came from a male mammoth who lived to be about 28 years old during the last ice age in what is now Alaska.
    — Esther Megbel, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The mammoth’s jawbone, containing molars the size of a man’s shoe, was collected at the same site.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Prehistoric fossils have been found in the area, including the skeleton of a mammoth.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 9 Oct. 2021
  • By about 6,000 years after this mammoth’s death, the species was almost extinct.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Mapping the billions of cells that make up the brain is a task mammoth enough to keep hundreds of researchers across continents busy for years.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 3 Jan. 2024

mammoth

2 of 2 adjective
  • Renovating the house is a mammoth undertaking.
  • So did the dire wolf, the mammoth and the giant ground sloth.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The mammoth, naked from the midriff up, looked as though he were headed to the pool.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Brandon Marsh tied it with a mammoth homer.
    — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Even calling the creation mammoth meat is a bit of a stretch.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Still an tragedy but once again a mammoth fail of our mental health crisis!
    — Amanda Morris, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The entrance was marked by large upright mammoth tusks.
    — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • The mammoth two-out blast, on a two-strike count, soared over the scoreboard in center field.
    — Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • Sorting out that mess is just one of the mammoth tasks the election winner will face.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
  • There’s also a sand pit where children can dig up replicas of pygmy mammoth bones.
    — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • The mammoth, winding sauna next door can hold up to 35 people.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • To bring in the supplies required to get them into shelter is a mammoth task.
    — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Neither Hildreth nor the mayor had signed off on the mammoth project.
    — Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But for some, making such a trip would be a mammoth undertaking.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Then, as the world watched, the mammoth spacecraft erupted in a huge fireball and shot out of control.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Now, researchers are using it to reveal which of the mammoth’s genes were active at the time of its death.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Remember all those mammoth long-term contracts the Padres signed?
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
  • Next week, the mystery of the ocean floor, a mammoth mapping project, submersibles, shipwrecks, and more.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Playing catch-up from the very start of a regulation set is a mammoth task to overcome, though.
    — Luke Smith, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Matthew Stafford also got a mammoth, two-year extension.
    — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 26 May 2026
  • Nvidia is using its mammoth cash pile to expand into new product areas.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • His mammoth ovation from the crowd on hand Saturday was well-earned after decades on the mic.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Johnson’s crack-up inserts a nagging question mark into the very idea of mammoth land-art projects.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Diners will be able to see chefs cooking with fire, and everything else going on in the mammoth-sized kitchen.
    — Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • There was also a mammoth two-run homer against Japan in the quarterfinals.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Further down the road, Musk wants to use the mammoth Starships to send crowds to Mars.
    — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 9 Feb. 2023
  • These mammoth events aren’t just for the biggest brands, or even those that would typically align with sports content and fans.
    — Sergii Denysenko, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • His proclivities in jazz are mammoth.
    — Steve Baltin, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
  • The project website lists ten main arguments for putting a mammoth-like animal back on the tundra.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Stewart follows it up with a mammoth dinger to straightaway centerfield.
    — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 24 Feb. 2026

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