How to Use the Stone Age in a Sentence

the Stone Age

noun
  • Queens of the Stone Age will serve as their opening act.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • There are also what may be a few rough schematics dating to the Stone Age.
    — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
  • When Kyuss broke up, Queens of the Stone Age rose from the ashes.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Singer Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age is 53.
    — ABC News, 11 May 2026
  • It’s been a dietary staple in many cultures for decades, and its use dates back to the Stone Age.
    — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Queens of the Stone Age and Mannequin Pussy are the support acts for most of the shows.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Either way, the answer could shake up what’s known about human origins during the Stone Age.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Reddit has also tried bringing its site out of the Stone Age by updating its design.
    — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Imposing rock paintings inside shelters and caves may date back as early as the Stone Age.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Ozzy Osbourne and Queens of the Stone Age have been seen in here, but nothing that hard ever takes the gold.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Einstein might say that each giant step forward is really taking us a giant step closer to the Stone Age.
    — Bob Lorentson, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2024
  • But arguing that fans will revolt if athletes get paid is now officially a talking point from the Stone Age.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The musician, who has been opening for Queens of the Stone Age, modeled a pair of knee-high boots in a chocolate-brown shade.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Halle Berry's made a few historic firsts in her storied career, but what about being the first Black woman of the Stone Age?
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 27 May 2024
  • Humans have hunted reindeer and traveled along the Norwegian mountain ranges since the Stone Age.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
  • What’s more fascinating and impressive, is the fact that Queens of the Stone Age’s 2-hour set was a raw and off-the-cuff show.
    — Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • These legendary musicians helped establish the desert rock scene and put it on the map with bands like Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • This is exactly the kind of spectacle Queens of the Stone Age put on at their show in Dublin, Ireland.
    — Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Amphorae Wine has been around since the Stone Age, but it was initially kept in animal skins, which surely didn’t improve the flavor.
    — The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Some of the valleys have been inhabited since the Stone Age, and some tiny villages trace their history back to the Middle Ages.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • As the Stone Age collapsed into the Bronze Age, the moon would become useful for much more than anticipating the seasons.
    — Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Supporting acts for the Nashville date will be Queens of the Stone Age, Mannequin Pussy and Gauge Away.
    — Melonee Hurt, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • See the new tour dates—featuring support from Queens of the Stone Age, Mannequin Pussy, and Gouge Away— below.
    — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2025
  • People have been carving pregnant-goddess figurines since the Stone Age, and depictions of pregnancy are a recurrent theme across art history.
    — Elizabeth Kiefer, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2026
  • Light led legal work on major tours for Queens of the Stone Age, Rob Zombie, Garbage and Violent Femmes.
    — Claudia Rosenbaum, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Loser, for example, dragged Pop off middling ambient music but lacked the teeth of his tracks with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 4 June 2026
  • That tendency, which may have been with us since the Stone Age, today serves the interests of our cumbersome friends in the Florida Everglades.
    — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • The next day will be in Narvik, a fishing village that can trace its history to the Stone Age but that has held township status only since the early 20th century.
    — Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 15 Apr. 2025
  • But modernizing the baseball operation, which has been operating in the Stone Age for more than a decade, is absolutely necessary.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Queens of the Stone Age will open all the dates except for the Fargo stop, with Mannequin Pussy and Gouge Away also lined up to perform on select dates.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025

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