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Ice sheets once covered much of the Northern Hemisphere during the ice age.—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 22 May 2025 For other cities along the East Coast and Great Lakes area, such as New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., the sinking primarily comes as the land slowly settles after the melting of glaciers from the last ice age.—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025 The logo represents the city, as mammoths used to live in Utah during the last ice age.—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025 Fishermen working off the coast of Taiwan long have dredged up the bones of ancient animals — elephants, water buffalo and hyenas — in their nets, relics of an ice age past when sea levels were lower and the ocean channel was a land bridge.—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ice age
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