How to Use mammoth in a Sentence

mammoth

1 of 2 noun
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  • The baby mammoth was found frozen in permafrost in the Klondike gold fields in the Yukon.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 27 June 2022
  • The bones are likely the remains of at least 14 mammoths.
    — Fox News, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The unearthing of the mammoth proved the existence of a time before time.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The tusk is believed to belong to a steppe mammoth from before the last ice age.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 15 July 2023
  • But the edges of the state were exposed -- and these areas tend to turn up mammoth remains.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 19 Mar. 2022
  • In the new museum, the mammoth will be part of a scene where hunters are prepared to strike it.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Many people might be happy to pay to get up close to a proxy mammoth.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
  • During this mammoth’s life, sometime at the very end of the last ice age, the Earth was warming up.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • It was preserved beneath the adult mammoth’s skull and tusks.
    — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • But a lot of its DNA carried on as part of the Columbia mammoth genome.
    — John Timmer, Wired, 21 Feb. 2021
  • The tusk came from a male mammoth who lived to be about 28 years old during the last ice age in what is now Alaska.
    — Esther Megbel, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2021
  • In contrast to the in utero years needed by a mammoth, the thylacine may only need a few weeks.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
  • It has now been confirmed that the tusk, which measures more than three feet in length, is from a Columbian mammoth.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The last mammoth, for instance, died after the first pyramids were built.
    — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • The last mammoths lived in Arctic areas near or in what is now Alaska.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
  • And indeed, the late 7-foot-4 mammoth has more than double the career blocks that Gobert does.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Exhibits include a full-size pterosaur, a wooly mammoth, and touchable wolves and bears.
    — Victoria Barber, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
  • The two hybridized to produce the Columbian mammoth, but no one knows exactly when.
    — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • In this one, a mammoth, a saber-toothed cat and a slot team up to return a human baby to its tribe (and the poor Scrat just tries to get his acorn).
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Both a giant sloth and a mammoth ambled across the humans’ path, the trackway reveals.
    — Katherine Kornei, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Food scientists grew cultured meat from cells of the mammoth.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
  • By about 6,000 years after this mammoth’s death, the species was almost extinct.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • What to order: The fried catfish is salt-pepper juju, and the meatloaf’s here’s mammoth.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 July 2023
  • Dutch researchers were able to create a massive meatball of flesh grown using the DNA of a wooly mammoth this week.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The mammoth’s jawbone, containing molars the size of a man’s shoe, was collected at the same site.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Our hominid ancestors took about two days to hunt down a wooly mammoth or saber-toothed tiger.
    — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The mammoths aren't enough to keep Gusev in the countryside, however.
    — Anton Troianovski, Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The youngest mammoth fossils, found on Wrangel Island north of Siberia, are from animals that were alive 3,700 years ago.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2022
  • One camp held that the mammoth was among the first victims of anthropogenic extinction.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Mapping the billions of cells that make up the brain is a task mammoth enough to keep hundreds of researchers across continents busy for years.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 3 Jan. 2024
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mammoth

2 of 2 adjective
  • Renovating the house is a mammoth undertaking.
  • The mammoth, naked from the midriff up, looked as though he were headed to the pool.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Further down the road, Musk wants to use the mammoth Starships to send crowds to Mars.
    — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Even calling the creation mammoth meat is a bit of a stretch.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The Trojans opened a mammoth 42-7 gap over the Tigers at halftime.
    — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2023
  • We were impressed with Taylor and his staff, but the task ahead is mammoth.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Sorting out that mess is just one of the mammoth tasks the election winner will face.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
  • There is the mammoth Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, of course.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Next week, the mystery of the ocean floor, a mammoth mapping project, submersibles, shipwrecks, and more.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Jan. 2024
  • To bring in the supplies required to get them into shelter is a mammoth task.
    — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Still an tragedy but once again a mammoth fail of our mental health crisis!
    — Amanda Morris, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The mammoth stage and video screen compounded that feeling.
    — Sean Burch, SPIN, 29 May 2023
  • His mammoth ovation from the crowd on hand Saturday was well-earned after decades on the mic.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The mammoth storm has tropical-storm-force winds that extend 520 miles from the center.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Their award-winning sluggers, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, hit mammoth home runs.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
  • Only Miss Peggy was permitted to know the details of the mammoth task.
    — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Remember, this is all still considered to be part of a mammoth wave III in the bog picture.
    — Ramki Ramakrishnan, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The region of Siberia Colossal had in mind, Sakha, has a thriving underground trade in mammoth tusks.
    — Andy Lamey, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
  • What's in the mammoth $1.7 trillion long-term spending package?
    — CBS News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Remember all those mammoth long-term contracts the Padres signed?
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
  • At the start of February, the Fed continued to pump the brakes on mammoth interest rate hikes that began in March 2022.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • This marks her fifth time headlining at the mammoth AT&T Stadium since 2011, but on this trip, she’s sold out three nights.
    — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Ukraine has also been on the receiving end of a mammoth flow of Western weapons and military aid.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • These mammoth events aren’t just for the biggest brands, or even those that would typically align with sports content and fans.
    — Sergii Denysenko, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Months later, experts now say the find is one of the most complete mammoth skeletons ever discovered in the state.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Johnson’s crack-up inserts a nagging question mark into the very idea of mammoth land-art projects.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But for some, making such a trip would be a mammoth undertaking.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • But perhaps the most astonishing find was a seven-foot-long mammoth tusk that had been preserved since the Ice Age.
    — Kyle Morris, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2024
  • But the most recent mammoth fossil found on mainland Alaska is one unearthed near the town of Chicken.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • The project website lists ten main arguments for putting a mammoth-like animal back on the tundra.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023

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