How to Use sperm whale in a Sentence

sperm whale

noun

• The 46-foot skeleton of a sperm whale is quite a sight.
  — Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2021
• And the sperm whale clans may be thousands of years old.
  — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
• The smallest could fit on the head of a pin; the largest, found in the gut of a sperm whale, grows up to 30 feet long.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
• Daniel Kraus has a long tattoo of a sperm whale on his left arm.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• But that doesn’t mean sperm whales want to restrict themselves to the open ocean.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2023
• This is still a rich area, but there are no more big squid, so no more sperm whales.
  — Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
• The shrill sounds of the sperm whale are downright dangerous.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
• The world’s largest predators, sperm whales spend most of their lives hunting.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 8 Sep. 2023
• For example, the streamlined teardrop hulls of post-World War II subs are based on the shape of the sperm whale.
  — Michael Peck, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• Since the late 1980s, trips to watch humpback, sperm whales and orca have sprung up all around Japan.
  — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• Then the pilot whales made another run at the sperm whales.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• On the West Coast:A 40-foot endangered sperm whale washed up dead on the Oregon coast.
  — Amanda Oglesby, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2023
• The notion of idly chatting with a sperm whale elicits sci-fi awe.
  — Sam Firman, Longreads, 11 July 2024
• Still, in proportion to our body size, the human brain is bigger than that of the sperm whale.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2022
• Ship strikes are responsible for more than half of all sperm whale deaths in the area.
  — Claudia Geib, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
• That's how many pounds of plastic and waste were found inside the stomach of a sperm whale that washed up on a beach in Spain.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 12 Apr. 2018
• These oscillations might have slashed the numbers of squid that the sperm whales eat.
  — National Geographic, 18 Oct. 2016
• On December 13, a 32-foot sperm whale swam to Rockaway Beach to die.
  — Laura Thompson, Curbed, 15 Feb. 2023
• The snapping shrimp, aka the pistol shrimp, is one of the loudest creatures in the ocean, along with the sperm whale and beluga whale.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 July 2022
• The epic battles between the colossal squid and the sperm whale show that when the sperm whale is ready for a meal, the squid isn’t always ready for the taking.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2023
• The 48-foot long male sperm whale ended up washing up on a beach near Berners Bay in mid-March.
  — Alex McCarthy, The Seattle Times, 13 Apr. 2019
• Connecticut Connecticut's state mammal is the sperm whale, the largest of the Earth's toothed whales.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
• With only a couple of these calls, a sperm whale can scope out schools of squid from almost 800 feet away.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
• But it’s thought that colossal squid makes up at least 77 percent of a sperm whale’s diet.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2023
• The silence of the sperm whales went unchallenged until 1957.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The dwarf sperm whale can reach just under nine feet long at its maximum size.
  — Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• The study also included the biggest whale with teeth, the sperm whale, which can stretch about 60 feet (18 meters) long, the group says.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2019
• In addition, the carcasses of a pygmy sperm whale and a fin whale also have been found ashore.
  — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 25 May 2021
• The group also was instrumental in the naming of the sperm whale as the state animal in 1975.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2022
• There, a population of around 200 sperm whales resides year-round in warm and sheltered waters.
  — Maggie Shipstead, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024