the Ice Age

noun

: the most recent time in the past when a large part of the world was covered with ice

a valley formed during the Ice Age

Examples of the Ice Age in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There are also indications that both populations have been in a steady decline since the Ice Age, with the total saola population on Earth never growing beyond 5,000 individuals over the last 10,000 years. —Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2025

Colossal plans to use similar techniques to bring back the Ice Age woolly mammoth in 2028, editing living cell nuclei from Asian elephants—the mammoth’s closest living kin—to express mammoth traits preserved in nearly 60 sets of Ice Age remains. —Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025

These hearths date back to the coldest period of the Ice Age, between 26,500 and 19,000 years ago. —Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025

Sharing Tool-Making Knowledge in the Ice Age Archaeologists working in the cave overlooking the ocean. —Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for the Ice Age

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