How to Use sei whale in a Sentence

sei whale

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  • By the mid-Sixties, however, fin and sei whales were slim pickings in the Antarctic, and the industry inevitably shuttered.
    — Lucy Jakub, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The sei whale, however, is currently on the endangered species list.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 July 2019
  • Yet for all scientists have learned about these charismatic leviathans, no one knows how baleen whales (a group that includes humpback, blue, fin and sei whales, among others) find their food in the first place.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Other animals and wildlife to keep an eye out for while on the water include sea otters, Stellar sea lions, orcas, and fin, gray, humpback, minke and sei whales.
    — Susan B. Barnes, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Most whale populations have not yet been recovered, including larger whales such as blue whales, fin whales and sei whales.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 9 June 2019
  • The mother factory ship Nisshin-maru and two support boats that used to go to the Antarctic will travel as far as Japan's 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone to catch minke, Bryde's and sei whales.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2019
  • Humpback and sei whales are relatively similar in size, for instance — both usually measuring longer than a school bus.
    — Karen Weintraub, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The sei whale, a somewhat mysterious type of whale that prefer to live in temperate waters in the mid-latitudes, was not yet mature, marine mammal biologists say.
    — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2020
  • The monument, encompassing 4,913 square miles off the coast of New England, protects ecological resources and species including deep-sea corals; sperm, fin, and sei whales; Kemp's ridley sea turtles; and deep-sea fish.
    — Evan Halper, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Blue, bowhead, fin and sei whale populations are also growing globally, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
    — Eric Bender, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2021

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