How to Use killer whale in a Sentence

killer whale

noun

• But the yacht will be lucky: The killer whales are nowhere to be seen.
  — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
• The killer whales played with the blow-up craft for about an hour.
  — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
• Last week, a group of killer whales broke the rudder and pierced the hull of a sailboat in the area.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 25 May 2023
• Images of killer whales can be sent to [e-mail].
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2024
• Still, in the jaws of a killer whale, the fearsome predator looked more like a toy.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2016
• Now, new research shows the same may be true for killer whales.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 13 Dec. 2019
• The killer whale, it is said, is not often seen so far south.
  — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018
• Humpbacks, killer whales and dolphins are this week’s stars of the show.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2019
• What is the significance of a hideous mask made from the hide of a killer whale?
  — Alida Becker, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• But in the winter, killer whales are less common in the Strait of Gibraltar.
  — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
• The week’s great reads A killer whale punted a sea lion 20 feet in the air to show calf how it’s done.
  — Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• But when a killer whale breaks from its training, all bets are off.
  — Tim Zimmermann, Outside Online, 30 July 2010
• The second episode dives deeper into the killer whales and their prey.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 25 Mar. 2020
• Hey, that reminds me of another joke: What did the seal with one fin say to the killer whale?
  — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
• Huggins takes skin samples from where the killer whale teeth marks are.
  — Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 25 Feb. 2022
• The killer whales are also seen nudging the boat's rudders.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 23 June 2023
• The last time the town saw an incident like this was in 2005, when a pod of killer whales became trapped the same way.
  — Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• The center killer whale brings the great white closer to the surface, biting the dead shark near the liver.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• The 50 foot and 60-ton shark could devour a killer whale easily.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Tl'uk is a Bigg's killer whale, a transient type of orca that hunts seals and sea lions up and down the West coast.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 14 Oct. 2019
• But the dolphins are not so small as to be a negligible threat to a killer whale.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• Two boats taking part in the The Ocean Race had run-ins with killer whales on Thursday, the race reported.
  — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
• In 2018 an emaciated killer whale calf turned up in the sound.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2022
• The male whale doesn’t bear the usual black-and-white coloring of other killer whales.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 21 Apr. 2020
• Read Next 50-year-old man tried to ‘body slam’ killer whale, officials say.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
• Read Next World 50-year-old man tried to ‘body slam’ killer whale, officials say.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
• The rare white killer whale has a condition called leucism, Hayes said.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2020
• A half-shark, half-octopus battles a hybrid of a killer whale and a wolf.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
• Zerbini thinks the craze for ramming rudders among the Iberian killer whales is probably a similar fad.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
• The technology found 303 of them in Peru, depicting parrots, cats, monkeys, killer whales, and more.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024