How to Use cetacean in a Sentence

cetacean

noun

• Not just an ordinary cetacean but a blue whale, the biggest of the species.
  — Tom Titus, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
• On the show The Boys, a speedboat smashes into a cetacean and the humans emerge unscathed.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 14 Sep. 2020
• Not since the Yangtze River dolphin went extinct in 2006 in China has a cetacean gone over the brink.
  — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2017
• Modern baleen whales include many of the world’s largest cetaceans, such as blue, fin, humpback, right, bowhead, and minke whales.
  — National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
• The study showed cetaceans with the largest brain size relative to their body living in more complex groups or pods were more likely to show grief.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 June 2018
• Researchers have long guessed at why baleen whales—a group of cetaceans that includes humpback, minke, right whales and others—grew so big.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
• Researchers have long guessed at why baleen whales—a group of cetaceans that includes humpback, minke, right whales and others—grew so big.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 May 2017
• After the earthquake, the team used directional hydrophones to tune into the cetaceans' sounds, and then traveled to the source in their boat.
  — National Geographic, 31 Jan. 2020
• The North Atlantic right whale, for example, reaches over 50 feet in length and is one of the most endangered cetaceans on the planet.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
• Among marine mammals, pinnipeds, such as seals, do—but cetaceans, such as whales and dolphins, do not.
  — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• While most cetaceans' pectoral fins are only one-seventh of their body length, a humpback's flippers can reach up to one-third of its body length.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 17 Oct. 2019
• In some places, official guardians watch over a resident cetacean.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020
• The Australian bottlenose dolphin, a cetacean, will wear a sea sponge on its rostrum for protection when rooting around the ocean floor.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• What sort of organism?: A cetacean related to today's baleen whales.
  — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 10 July 2017
• Many of the doomed cetaceans looked skinny or emaciated, while others looked torn up by orcas.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• Hundreds, possibly thousands, of otherwise healthy cetaceans have died as a result of the war.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Like all other toothed whales, these little Arctic-dwelling cetaceans have an organ on their foreheads that’s referred to as the melon.
  — Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 2 May 2024
• Experts believe the ailing cetacean came into the Bay in late May searching for food and respite from the harsher conditions of the Pacific Ocean.
  — Ashley McBride, SFChronicle.com, 17 June 2019
• Only males sing them, especially in the breeding grounds, which suggests that music is the food of love for cetaceans, too—though the exact function of the songs is still obscure.
  — Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
• Sperm whales are the only living cetacean that has a single blowhole asymmetrically situated on the left side of the crown of the head.
  — al, 23 Nov. 2020
• The same whale-watching business spotted the cetaceans on three occasions: June 3, 4 and 9. Papaya has been spied off the Orange County coast before.
  — Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• As for the whale itself, experts are still unable to determine why the cetacean and its travel companions swam upriver in the first place.
  — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 14 Sep. 2020
• Creatures of many species from wolf to cetacean grieve the loss of relatives or close companions, as Barbara J. King discusses.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2018
• The vaquita, also known as the California harbor porpoise, is the smallest cetacean and makes its home in the northern part of the Gulf of California.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
• This cetacean is an anatomical bridge between more archaic forms like Basilosaurus and the profusion of baleen whales that followed.
  — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 14 June 2017
• The all white belugas are a cold-water species native to the arctic and sub-arctic north whose closest relative among cetaceans is the narwhal.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 4 July 2019
• The world’s smallest member of the cetacean grouping, which includes whales and dolphins, the vaquita was the most recent cetacean to be recognized by modern science.
  — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2017
• Known mostly by its Spanish name, the snub-nosed vaquita is the world’s smallest cetacean, a miniature porpoise with a cartoonlike features and dark smudges around its eyes.
  — Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2017
• That could be because commercial whaling bans have boosted the number of cetaceans in the sea, allowing whales to find mates without having to shout.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2020
• Near the peak of industrial whaling, a biologist named Roger Payne heard a radio report that changed his life and, with it, the lives of the world’s remaining cetaceans.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024