How to Use prehistoric in a Sentence

prehistoric

adjective

• His attitudes about women are downright prehistoric.
• Another prehistoric find is now up for grabs—this time in the City of Lights.
  — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2022
• The seas receded over time, causing the prehistoric sharks to die.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 June 2023
• Jason Statham and team fight to stay alive as prehistoric creatures come to the surface.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
• In fact, some in the Stevensburg District are prehistoric.
  — Allison Brophy Champion, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2022
• That is the largest number of visits known for any prehistoric cave in Europe.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 16 May 2023
• The tracks were left by prehistoric birds, the oldest bird footprints yet found on Australia.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• Kudos to the kids' movie that takes place in prehistoric times, but doesn't center on dinosaurs.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
• The Meg pits Jason Statham against a giant prehistoric shark.
  — Rebecca Pahle, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• Thousands of years ago, the entire area was covered by a prehistoric lake.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2023
• So there’s this big prehistoric lizard, see, and once upon a time, the powers that be tried to kill him with a nuclear bomb.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
• One is a prehistoric shark called megactenopetalus, which had teeth as big or bigger than megalodon teeth.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
• The prehistoric shark lived between 23 to 3.6 million years ago and was about three times larger than the modern day great white shark.
  — Melissa Pérez-Carrillo, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
• Wild and bizarre Arizona had some wild sharks in its prehistoric waters.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
• Just like the prehistoric monster it was named after, the half-ton Ram TRX is going extinct.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 30 Aug. 2023
• Ever since the New Deal’s historic launch in 1933, Republicans have tried to turn the clock back to prehistoric times.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• From that, the pair concluded that both males and females hunted in prehistoric times.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2023
• Tens of thousands of years ago in prehistoric Eurasia, some daredevil made friends with a gray wolf.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
• Evidence suggests that this wine has been produced in the area from prehistoric times.
  — Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• An ice dam collapsed over Hudson Bay, causing two huge prehistoric lakes to drain, an ice sheet to melt, and sea levels to rise.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• Around 8,000 people gathered around the prehistoric stones at Stonehenge to greet the sun for the summer solstice, which is the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• The Tree of Life involved fashioning prehistoric creatures for a sequence labeled the Dream of God.
  — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2023
• The small swimmer was only about a foot long and lived in prehistoric Mongolia about 71 million years ago.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
• There have been many fossils from prehistoric animals found in the area, many of which can be seen at the visitor's center.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 29 May 2023
• And the prehistoric snail shell fragments are thought to be from relatives of modern behemoths that can grow to the size of a human hand and weigh more than two pounds.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• The piece seems to conjure a prehistoric avant-garde musical workshop, a sonic analogue of the visual culture that can be glimpsed in the cave.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• But what about an extinct prehistoric animal that no one has seen for thousands of years?
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
• Picture this Any experts on prehistoric plants have an ID on this fossil?
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2023
• But there is so much more to be found here, including long-extinct, prehistoric creatures from the distant past.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
• The show transports kids back millions of years to prehistoric periods when dinosaurs roamed the planet.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 2 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024