How to Use humpback whale in a Sentence

humpback whale

noun

• The rescuers had managed to cut away the ropes and free the humpback whale.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
• That’s akin to an eight-pound baby swelling to the size of a 40-ton humpback whale.
  — Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post, 3 July 2019
• The sheer lack of precedent for what a humpback whale birth looks like.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2018
• Soak up the story of Tofu, a humpback whale who lived in the Gulf of Maine.
  — Nicole Defeudis, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• On the horizon, seals peeked out of the water, and a humpback whale swam by with her calf.
  — Susan Shain, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
• Out on the briny green, salmon and striped bass are jumping in the boat, and the humpback whales are just plain jumping.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2018
• At the time of its death, the female humpback whale was by all accounts healthy.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2022
• Watlington thought the sounds were from humpback whales.
  — Camille Bromley, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
• To feed, these humpback whales open their mouths wide and take in large amounts of water.
  — Sophie Sherry and Justin Lear, CNN, 30 July 2019
• The book opens in Antarctica with the tagging of a humpback whale.
  — Karin Altenberg, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• Last week, Packard ended up inside the mouth of a humpback whale.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2021
• It is believed to be one of the offspring of a tagged humpback whale named Venom.
  — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2021
• Of the seven humpback whale cases since 2003, five were in the last seven years.
  — oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2021
• This brought an influx of big stripers inshore, along with the humpback whale.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 24 July 2024
• Grown humpback whales can weigh 40 tons and are often more than 40 feet long.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
• Another humpback whale washed ashore in Fort Bragg, the third dead whale in three months.
  — Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• Whalen made the first humpback whale sighting, as good fortune would have it.
  — Jennifer Billock, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2023
• For much of this time, most cetaceans were little bigger than a humpback whale.
  — Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
• The island is teeming with wildlife; this is a place where black bears roam the forests and humpback whales can be spotted along the coast.
  — Irenie Forshaw, The Week Uk, theweek, 28 May 2024
• The goal: To bring back extinct species at some point in the future, be they elephants, wolves or humpback whales.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
• The humpback whale is federally protected and one of the largest of the baleen whales.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 30 June 2020
• Last week, a boater had a close encounter with a humpback whale who jumped out of the water near Gloucester.
  — Abbi Matheson, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2019
• From watching the video, Corkeron was able to identify the whale as a humpback whale who looked to be feeding.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021
• The team writes for the that many of these cues are vocal, like the chipper whistles of dolphins or the haunting songs of humpback whales.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
• Once the harpooner had delivered the killing blow to a humpback whale, the crew had to complete their end of the bargain.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
• That’s less than one-quarter of the size of a full-grown megalodon, which could grow up to 15 meters, roughly the length of a humpback whale.
  — Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS, 24 Nov. 2020
• The humpback whale's age, gender or cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• The incredible video as shot from a tour ship after the three humpback whales spent some time near the boat, lolling around.
  — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• Instances of humpback whale entanglements with fishing gear have climbed sharply in the last decade, thanks to a chain of events sparked by warming seas.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
• Take a bucket list plunge with award-winning Coral Bay Eco Tours and swim in groups of 10 or fewer with a marine biologist and photographer guides alongside whale sharks, migratory humpback whales, and manta rays.
  — Chloe Sachdev, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024