prehistoric
adjective
of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history.
prehistorically
-
a word derived from
prehistoric.
Example Sentences
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You can go back, prehistorically, to Hanna-Barbera’s “The Flintstones,” the “modern Stone Age family” comedy, which premiered in 1960 on ABC.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
The very assets that made them prehistorically indestructible — size, horns — turned out to be liabilities.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2021
Stone-tool-using farmers similarly replaced hunters prehistorically throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
With swarms of these things filling the sky, they’d not only have to worry about getting scorched by the fire, they’d also have to watch their backs for prehistorically large poison bugs.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Mother, dear, when I shut my eyes to-night, I see Barrows, billowing prehistorically along the horizon, and I see Stonehenge, black against a red sunset, and silver in the moonlight.
From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
