How to Use narwhal in a Sentence

narwhal

noun

• The one species, the narwhal, is an Arctic whale known for its huge nine-foot tusk.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
• She's been a seal, an Oreo Blizzard, a narwhal and more.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2023
• Drone footage of wild narwhals has revealed that the whales use their tusks to hunt fish.
  — Kacey Deamer, NBC News, 30 May 2017
• All of this traffic has made the narwhal’s world a much louder one.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2022
• Both narwhal and belugas mate in the spring, as the sea ice is breaking up.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 20 June 2019
• In his way, of course, Nemo is a narwhal, a stature that Bandealy embraces with a real glee.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2018
• Or perhaps a narwhal uses its tusk to flush out prey on the ocean bottom.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
• Wearing a blue narwhal costume for the plunge was Christen Ng of Naperville.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
• Her new tattoo joins plenty of others: a fierce tiger, a narwhal and a spaceship, to name just a few.
  — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2017
• The three whales all had pectoral fins shaped like belugas and tails shaped like narwhals.
  — Fox News, 21 June 2019
• Despite their apparent noise, the drones dont seem to disturb the narwhals.
  — Dyllan Furness, Fox News, 17 May 2017
• The misshapen right pectoral fin and scars on the mottled many-shades-of-gray skin of one narwhal looked familiar.
  — Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
• Gray whales don’t echolocate like orcas and narwhals do.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, 20 July 2019
• Friedrich Nietzsche was not a narwhal, and never will be.
  — David P. Barash, WSJ, 20 July 2022
• Like any whale, the narwhal needs to surface to breathe — on average, every four to six minutes.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
• The area abounds with polar bears, harp and ringed seals, millions of birds, narwhal, beluga, and bowhead whales.
  — Peter Kujawinski, The New Yorker, 11 May 2017
• The ocean is habitat for narwhal, beluga, and bowhead whales.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• It's filled with gigantic whale skulls, extinct dolphin bones, and eight-foot-long narwhal tusks.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2017
• The Acousonde device, however, attaches to a ridge on the narwhals back via a magnesium link.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
• Researchers have long debated what the 10-foot-long tooth that erupts from a narwhal’s head is actually for.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
• The man gave them three kilos, worth about $100, from a narwhal that was being shared by several families.
  — Fran Golden, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2023
• Avocados, llamas and narwhals are in, as are earth tones and neutral colors like white and gray.
  — Washington Post, 25 July 2019
• Little was known about the tusk's function because narwhals spend most of their lives hidden underneath the Arctic ice.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 18 Mar. 2020
• Even more surprising was that the animal's mother had been a narwhal and the father a beluga.
  — Jason Bittel, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2019
• 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, 24 Aug. 2020
• The narwhal is a year-round Arctic resident, summering in ice-free coastal waters.
  — National Geographic, 3 Feb. 2020
• One appeared to charge at him with the antique tusk of a narwhal — a type of whale — while another sprayed him with a fire extinguisher before knocking him down.
  — NBC News, 30 Nov. 2019
• The bizarre episode added further intrigue to the narwhal’s fabled reputation.
  — NBC News, 14 Feb. 2020
• Or that people, for centuries, thought that narwhal tusks were unicorn horns, and that they were imbued with medicinal powers?
  — Megan Gambino, Smithsonian, 7 Dec. 2019
• Female killer whales, as well as narwhals and short-finned pilot and beluga whales, are the only other animals who go through menopause.
  — Darcey Steinke, Time, 28 June 2019

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024