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
• The chain's San Diego park ended live orca shows in 2015.
  — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
• 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
• An orca whale mother has kept her dead calf by her side for at least 11 days.
  — Bailey Richards, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
• 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 appearance of a new orca calf in Washington’s Puget Sound last month was cause for celebration.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025