How to Use orca in a Sentence

orca

noun
  • The job of the orca whales here is to herd the herring into a ball—no easy trick.
    Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The 26-foot-long orca is now the largest skeleton of its kind on display in the world.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Rescuers hope to spare the whale the fate of an orca that strayed into the Seine and died in May.
    Thomas Adamson, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
  • So, the orcas had to spend all their time looking for prey.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024
  • Rescuers had hoped to spare the whale the fate of an orca that strayed into the Seine and died in May.
    Thomas Adamson, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The region is home to pods of orcas and gray whales and humpbacks.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • Watch for humpbacks and orcas, black and brown bears — and more.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The crack of a rifle, the grunt of a polar bear, the spout of an orca, the bone-on-bone clash of narwhal tusks.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Jeanne Moos reports on how the tide turned for this orca.
    Amy Wray, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
  • At the bottom of the tube sat a half-inch of what looked like frozen mud, but was, in fact, orca ordure.
    Kate Brooks, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • That’s not the case for orcas, which are massive and free-swimming.
    Gene Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • An orca in France can speak human — well, sort of — and, wow, this is the best news ever.
    Shannon Barbour, Cosmopolitan, 2 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Like the orcas, the kings are today at the mercy of years of human choices.
    Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • The orca is one of only a handful of mammals known to go through menopause.
    Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Tsuchiya says the orcas appeared to be struggling to breathe and are unable to swim free.
    Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Part of its fluke has torn away, and there are orca teeth marks along its flanks and under its jaw.
    Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The team found that orcas spend most of their time taking shallow dives.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 May 2024
  • At one point, a pod of orca whales surrounded the vessel and breached again and again.
    Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2022
  • Kendall-Bar says that the team believes the seals sleep in this way to avoid sneak attacks from orcas or great white sharks.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Monterey Whale Watch will run all-day orca trips in April.
    Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2018
  • When one of her cubs is attacked by a pod of orca whales, the details are vivid and haunting.
    Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The orcas are due to be shipped to another marine park in Japan.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • Watch above as the playful orca breaches not once, but four times.
    Katina Beniaris, Country Living, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Watch above as the playful orca breaches not once, but four times.
    Katina Beniaris, Country Living, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Giles says the new orca was first seen by a person fishing off the Oregon coast on April 28.
    Washington Post, 5 May 2022
  • But the relationship soured in the months after the orca died Aug. 18.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
  • The orca whales involved in the encounter do not migrate and can be seen in the area year-round, according to the PWWA.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2022
  • If sharks attacking whales is fleetingly rare, it is known that some orca pods – also known as killer whales – are adept whale killers.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2024
  • The tag’s temperature readings didn’t fit the profile of a mammal like an orca, for example.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2024

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