How to Use baleen in a Sentence

baleen

noun

• Back at the lab, the baleen plates were frozen, cleaned and measured.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
• How did whales make the jump from using teeth to baleen?
  — Jennifer S. Holland, Smithsonian, 1 Sep. 2017
• All baleen whales eat tiny krill, crustaceans found in all the world's oceans.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2017
• The sei whale is a type of baleen whale and prefers deep offshore waters.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• But why baleen replaced teeth in the first place is still a bit of an unknown.
  — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2018
• That’s because the large baleen whales became the target of whaling in the 1800s.
  — Hope McKenney, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2022
• As the water escapes, krill and small fish are snagged by the baleen’s bristles.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
• In a yard off Stevenson Street, there is a steel pipe with baleen attached to it like palm fronds.
  — Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• The whales then push out the water and strain the fish through flexible comb-like structures in their mouths called baleen.
  — Sarah Keartes, National Geographic, 30 July 2019
• Of course, today’s baleen whales include some of the largest animals of all time.
  — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 14 June 2017
• One of Reed’s daughters fixed the woman a cot to sleep on in the living room, beneath the baleen and dreamcatchers.
  — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 16 May 2019
• Seram, the largest island in the Maluku Island group, is near the migration routes for baleen whales.
  — Fox News, 15 May 2017
• Feats like that allowed the giant baleen whales to thrive as the oceans changed while smaller baleen whales went extinct.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 May 2017
• On the wall, a finger of whale baleen hung above a wooden snowshoe and an image of Jesus.
  — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2023
• Earliest mysticete from the Late Eocene of Peru sheds new light on the origin of baleen whales.
  — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 14 June 2017
• Krill is sort of a plankton soup – the primary food of humpbacks and other baleen whales.
  — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 11 May 2017
• Then seemingly overnight, one type of whale – the toothless baleens – became huge.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2017
• Then seemingly overnight, one type of whale — the toothless baleens — became huge.
  — Seth Borenstein, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• Several other kinds of whales can be found in the Gulf, but Rice’s whales are the only baleen whales living there year-round.
  — Janet McConnaughey, orlandosentinel.com, 12 May 2021
• Worm-snails then filter-feed like baleen whales by pulling the mucus webs back into their mouths and straining the food through barbs on their tongues.
  — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2017
• Kanayurak uses sea glass, whale bones, ivory pieces and baleen to create her collages.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2022
• As for the whale’s bristly baleen, these fibers and plates are flexible and resistant to fracture thanks to high levels of keratin.
  — Sarah Keartes, National Geographic, 30 July 2019
• Both toothed and baleen (filter-feeding) whales are among the largest animals ever to exist.
  — Jeremy Goldbogen, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2019
• What sort of organism?: A cetacean related to today's baleen whales.
  — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 10 July 2017
• Small fish and krill are captured in the whale’s baleen — plates of keratin that hang from the top of the whale’s mouth resembling bristles on a toothbrush — and are swallowed into the whale’s stomach.
  — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
• These included toothed species (dolphins, porpoises, orcas and sperm whales) that use sonar, and baleen species that don't.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2010
• But some later lost their teeth, developing plates of bristle-like baleen in their mouths that’s used to filter small prey such as krill from the water.
  — National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
• These feed by filtering small organisms such as krill from the water, using hairy plates (made of tissue called baleen) as sieves.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• Over time, the filtering behavior would have caused whales to evolve baleen to fill in the gaps of their teeth before replacing them entirely.
  — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2018
• People harvested the baleen, blubber, bone, meat, oil, and spermaceti.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024