Cro-Magnon
Example Sentences
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He vowed to pursue a “Cro-Magnon diet,” an allusion to cave-dwelling early humans in the French southwest.
From New York Times
He said he based the concept of He-Man on his vision of Cro-Magnon men, as well as Vikings.
From Seattle Times
Hall has a square chin, broad Cro-Magnon brow and flinty green eyes.
From New York Times
“Or if it does look funny, you don’t say funny things. So I’ve been an ex-Navy SEAL, a bouncer, big daddies, which is cool. I’ve always had fun with that. But I love making people laugh. When I played football, my best memories in football came out of the locker room and cracking jokes. So comedies were always where I wanted to end up but when you’re a big guy with a big, Cro-Magnon forehead and a beard, Hollywood’s like, ‘Yeah, we’ve got other ideas for you.”
From Seattle Times
Sometime during the last glacial epoch, when hunter-gatherers were still living in caves, the Neanderthal tool-making mentality gave way to the Cro-Magnon urge to make images.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
