How to Use porpoise in a Sentence

porpoise

noun

• A dozen porpoises swam past, between the near ship and the shore.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• At the time, DiCaprio explained, there were fewer than 30 of the vaquita — a tiny porpoise — in the world.
  — Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• The porpoise washed up on the shore near Harbor Point housing complex.
  — Laney Ruckstuhl, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• The magic vessel could be a yacht or a galley, a porpoise or a mermaid.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
• And, of course, put aside some time to get out on the ocean to see some of the 27 species of whales and porpoises that call these temperate waters home.
  — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2018
• The challenge is amplified by the fact that there are so few of the diminutive porpoises left.
  — CBS News, 30 June 2018
• At the bridge, watch for basking sharks, porpoises, and dolphins.
  — Jamie Moore, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
• Ice isn't the only attraction on these boats: keep an eye out for whales and wildlife, puffins and porpoises, too.
  — Josh Niva, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
• The nets also drown vaquitas, a small porpoise that lives only in the Gulf — also known as the Sea of Cortes — of which perhaps as few as 10 remain.
  — Mark Stevenson, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
• But that may not yet spell doom for the vaquita porpoise, according to new research.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 May 2022
• Echo Hunter would have been about the size of a modern day harbor porpoise, and would have resembled a small dolphin, Dr. Churchill said.
  — Jonah Engel Bromwich, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2016
• Lake sturgeon, which also make a spring spawning migration up the Wolf, porpoise near the raft.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2018
• The porpoise remains have been removed from the site, and will be examined by a marine expert.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 21 Sep. 2017
• Both confirmed that what Austin thought was a porpoise was actually a great white shark.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 3 Aug. 2023
• His contemporaries named the Dall’s porpoise and Dall sheep after him.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
• Garbage, often. Porpoises, sometimes, for the shores of the Netherlands are teeming with hundreds of thousands of them.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 15 June 2017
• Although fishing boats might not target the porpoises, they are often tangled in the nets or struck by boats.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2023
• Orcas have the most varied diet of any whale, dolphin or porpoise, and can take on prey of all types, from stingrays to salmon, depending on the type of orca.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 25 Sep. 2018
• There's no guarantee the dolphin knocked him off on purpose (porpoise?).
  — Scott Berson, miamiherald, 1 May 2018
• During Sunday's episode, the time-traveling doctor proved her worth again after jumping off the side of the porpoise into the ocean.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Nov. 2017
• Kenai is also a wildlife-lover’s paradise, home to orcas and humpbacks, puffins, porpoises, and much more.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• During one outing, Corbett found a group of three killer whales chasing a pod of 15 porpoises (which also eat salmon).
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2020
• But the tale of the sea turtle has taken a different route than that of the highly endangered rhino and a nearly extinct porpoise called the vaquita.
  — Gabe Andrews, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2022
• The fantasy imagines the finless porpoises as guardians of the Yangtze River delta, with one who can turn herself into a human princess.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
• Monks would have been able to easily catch the porpoise after tide waters receded.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 21 Sep. 2017
• The vaquita porpoise will be extinct in a matter of years, with the Māui dolphin and North Atlantic right whale likely following close behind.
  — Spencer Roberts, Wired, 24 Oct. 2021
• Vaquita porpoises are often caught in the nets, causing their population to drop to about 30.
  — Elliot Spagat, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2017
• Daniele Gaither is that one (possibly black) porpoise in the Netflix cartoon Bojack Horseman.
  — Brandon R. Reynolds, Los Angeles Magazine, 19 Jan. 2018
• Orca–or killer whales–are the ultimate apex predators, who have been observed attacking great white sharks, porpoises, and even blue whales.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2024
• Toothed whales include, orcas, sperm whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024