How to Use whale in a Sentence

whale

noun

• In the Bible, Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 30 Jan. 2023
• So many whales foraged in the bay that the mariners didn’t need to venture to the open ocean.
  — Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• The Rams would have to go on a whale of a run to play themselves back into the picture.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• No, despite their large size and the 'whale' in their name, whale sharks are not mammals.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• Either the whale dove at the last minute or the recording device slipped off the whale’s back and had to be fished out of the water.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Watch whales with an ocean view from the living room and cook delicious meals in the gourmet kitchen.
  — oregonlive, 27 June 2023
• The death of that whale followed the deaths of seven whales in New Jersey and New York in a little over a month.
  — Wayne Parry, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2023
• On the first day, the family butchered the whale and divided the meat into two piles.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The Final Four swallows all of it up, like whales eat winnows.
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 3 Apr. 2023
• The women cheer and caress the whale, whose mouth continues to hang open.
  — Ferris Jabr, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
• According to the study, the whale is a member of the basilosaurid group, a family of extinct cetaceans.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• But like in the great Herman Melville novel, the pursuit of the great white whale might end up dooming the voyage, not the whale.
  — John Shu, National Review, 5 Aug. 2023
• Two summers ago, Lowry was the one coming in as an aging whale.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2023
• Each of the whale’s massive vertebrae weighed more than 200 pounds.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• Behind the scenes and underneath the hood, the contract might have been swallowed up like a fish into the mouth of a whale.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• The storm around his boat one evening didn’t concern him, but the hole a whale or shark put in his boat’s hull in the middle of the night amid the storm surely did.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
• Four baby whales and an adult were killed during the capture.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• Meat racks, umiak frames and the occasional pincer of whale bones poked out of the snow dunes.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Jonah and the whale (of a slump breaker) A couple of days off did, in fact, seem to do Jonah Heim some good.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2023
• The cause of death for the second whale, a 37-foot male that appeared to be in good condition, is still unknown.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2023
• Simmons says the local Icelandic whales saw him as a threat and treated him as such.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• The research suggests the whales’ ability to repair DNA might be one of the keys to their longevity.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• An earlier version of the story misidentified the length of the whale.
  — oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2023
• The stories featured the loon, whale, moose and other animals of the region.
  — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023
• The left needs to make the case that by helping to decarbonize the economy, the IRA is protecting whales.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• Many people, though, say wind farm development is the cause of the whale strandings.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 23 Feb. 2023
• Bit by bit, the great whale – which is in the running for the heaviest animal of all time – would have survived.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• Scattered across the pages are whale stamps, each signifying a catch.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• But the whale sighting triggered a different kind of response.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• In early March, scientists shared details about an orca whale attack on a great white shark.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024