How to Use beaked whale in a Sentence

beaked whale

noun

• Or, in the case of the beaked whale, floating in the water.
  — Laurelin Kruse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2022
• That would bring the number of known beaked whale species to 24.
  — NBC News, 11 Dec. 2020
• The Blainville’s beaked whale was found Jan. 16 on the shore at Pensacola Beach.
  — al, 29 Jan. 2023
• Most of these men likely never saw a beaked whale alive.
  — J. B. MacKinnon, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
• In 2017, a beaked whale washed up onshore near Bergen, Norway.
  — Amia Srinivasan, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
• The ships will spend much of the summer hunting for minke and Baird's beaked whales, Reuters reported.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2019
• There are 22 species that make up the diverse beaked whale family.
  — Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
• One night last month, two dead beaked whales washed up just outside the tiny village of Praia do Tofo.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 22 May 2019
• Scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of beaked whale in the waters off the Japanese coast.
  — Fox News, 7 Sep. 2019
• Gervais' beaked whales have a slightly bulging forehead and a pronounced, narrow beak.
  — National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2018
• In Hollywood, a dead beaked whale was found, in addition to twisted metal that looked like part of an airplane.
  — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• What’s more, various beaked whale species are hard to identify, as the differences between them tend to be subtle.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2017
• It is also known that beaked whales are sensitive to noise, especially sonar.
  — Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
• Watching San Diego posted a video Aug. 10 on social media of a yellowish-brown whale with a white face, a.k.a., Cuvier’s beaked whale.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• In March, a Cuvier’s beaked whale, a species that can dive deeper and hold its breath longer than any other marine mammal, washed up dead in the Philippines with eighty-eight pounds of plastic in its body.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• Over the course of the five-hour flight, the team documented two endangered sperm whales, two fin whales, two True’s beaked whales, hundreds of dolphins, dozens of ocean sunfish, and several basking sharks.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• Many modern whales — such as the beluga, narwhal and beaked whale – have lost most of their functional teeth and primarily feed by sucking up single prey items such as fish and squid.
  — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2018
• But the world’s most elusive cetacean, the beaked whale, has been documented making similar marks elsewhere, for reasons unknown.
  — Todd Woody, National Geographic, 24 July 2019
• According to the center, the blasts may deafen the animal and cause internal hemorrhaging and lesions found in the growing number of dead beaked whales that have washed up on beaches.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• The beaked whales were a particularly rare sighting, scientists said.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• This particular type of beaked whale had unusual teeth placement, researcher Jay Barlow told Reuters.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
• Not much is known about beaked whales because of their deep-sea habitat, reclusive behavior, and apparent scarcity, according to researchers.
  — Ashley Varese, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
• Cuvier's beaked whale ranges through the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, but its Gulf population is considered unique and isolated.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• After analyzing the data collection, the researchers found the 3-D tags picked up the same circling movements in many animals, including king penguins, tiger sharks, whale sharks and even a Cuvier's beaked whale, New Scientist reports.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2021
• An extremely rare beaked whale was found washed up on a beach at Point Reyes National Seashore this week, prompting animated excitement among normally self-possessed marine scientists.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 Aug 2024