How to Use woolly mammoth in a Sentence

woolly mammoth

noun
  • The island was one of the last refuges for woolly mammoths on Earth.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The timeline for the woolly mammoth is still five to six years, Lamm said.
    — Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • If so, those genes would be proven helpful in the woolly mammoth's return.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The school districts get to name their fossils and can use them to learn about woolly mammoths.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
  • If your ancestors hadn’t had one, they’d have been squashed by a woolly mammoth.
    — Mary Clements Evans, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • The same goes for Viking warriors, woolly mammoths, and laser-eyed demons.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 July 2024
  • The idea that woolly mammoths might once again roam the Earth made headlines around the world.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
  • This success brings us a step closer to our goal of bringing back the woolly mammoth.
    — New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025
  • There is a mural of woolly mammoths and a life-size ancient bison full of hair and fur.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • But the potential return of the woolly mammoth is still years away.
    — Eric MacK, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Five-year building plans have gone the way of dinosaurs, dodo birds and woolly mammoths.
    — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Their ‘model species’ is the woolly mammoth for a number of reasons.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
  • To see the woolly mammoth thunder upon tundra once again.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Not everyone is on board with the woolly mammoth’s return, though.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 15 Jan. 2025
  • White guilt comes with the white skin; the evil is frozen in time—like the sin of Adam, like the woolly mammoth in the glacier.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 16 May 2021
  • The effort to produce a woolly mammoth is on something of a tight schedule.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Elon Musk has urged scientists to create a woolly mammoth small enough to keep as a pet.
    — Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Church focused not on the passenger pigeon but on his own pet project, the woolly mammoth.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
  • An extremely rare woolly mammoth bone has been found on a beach in Scotland.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • The last woolly mammoth likely roamed around 4,000 years ago.
    — Jonathan Shipley, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
  • For starters, unlike the woolly mammoth, the northern white rhino is not extinct — yet.
    — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Summon up a picture for us from the mists of time, and explain the importance of the woolly mammoth.
    — National Geographic, 9 June 2018
  • 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 species is the closest living relative to the woolly mammoth.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Colossal aims to have something similar to a woolly mammoth calf within the next six years.
    — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Once the woolly mammoth is born, it will be monitored within a bio-secure preserve, the start-up says.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The company is only working on the woolly mammoth right now, Lamm said.
    — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The woolly mammoth, for example, had giant tusks that could plow beneath snow in search of food and a thick, shaggy coat.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 July 2021
  • Instead, woolly mammoths and scimitar cats prowl the icy landscape.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2025
  • In 2015, a farmer near Chelsea uncovered the bones of a woolly mammoth.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022

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