How to Use epoch in a Sentence

epoch

noun
  • The development of the steam engine marked an important epoch in the history of industry.
  • The Civil War era was an epoch in 19th-century U.S. history.
  • Call it the end of the neon era or the beginning of the LED epoch.
    cleveland, 9 Feb. 2020
  • The Year of the Jerk may well be the start of a new epoch of unbounded behavior.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • What Okun couldn’t know was that this epoch was nearing its end.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
  • So much of the history of our epoch happened in Berlin.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Apr. 2023
  • But many now believe this long epoch is drawing to a close.
    G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The fossil dates to the late Oligocene epoch and is believed to be 24 million to 28 million years old.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022
  • The dawn bear died as a young adult during the Oligocene epoch, as the Antarctic glacier was growing and the globe was cooling.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • And this giant isn’t some holdover from an ancient epoch.
    Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
  • Had the Earth really entered a new epoch, in the stratigraphic sense of the term?
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
  • According to the fossil record, the Dimetrodon genus went extinct around the end of the Cisuralian epoch in the Permian.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2024
  • In the skies over Ukraine, a new epoch in air warfare is emerging: drone-on-drone combat.
    Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
  • My travels through the ages now returned me, for better or worse, to my own epoch.
    Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • Then came the Hadron epoch, when the first protons and neutrons formed from quarks, about 1 second after the Big Bang.
    Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Diegoaelurus comes from the Eocene epoch, which stretched from 56 million to 34 million years ago.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Titanoboa was long gone by the time the Amazon sea emerged about 18.4 million years ago during the Miocene epoch.
    Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
  • His was an epoch of Empire and old Britain that is, definitively, no more.
    Juliet Rieden, Town & Country, 10 June 2019
  • This was the end of the era when everything mattered and the beginning of the epoch of cynicism.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • This epoch has been bad, but the next global threat (e.g. climate crisis) might be even worse.
    Madhukar Pai, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Astronomers have studied this early epoch with telescopes on the ground and in space.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • What are the qualities most needed in this epoch of the Anthropocene?
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • In the Pliocene epoch, the growth of ice at the poles led to frequent sea level changes and loss of important offshore habitats.
    New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Betting big on the fallout from epoch-making events, like the fall of the Berlin Wall, is George Soros’s preferred tactic.
    The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Android phones have had it for what now feels like an entire epoch of the Earth, and now the iPhone does too: an always-on display.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
  • But in just over three and a half minutes, an epoch’s worth of emotion circulates.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • San Diego looked very different back in the Eocene epoch, from about 56 million to 34 million years ago.
    Raegan Scharfetter, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Temperatures were a little warmer then, so the epoch could be a good preview of a warmer Earth.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2018
  • During this time, pterosaurs would have existed from the Early Jurassic to the epoch’s end.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The causes behind this tumultuous epoch have been debated for years.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2024

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