How to Use whalebone in a Sentence

whalebone

noun

• That giant whalebone is the first major find this fall at a Bay Area beach.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• The corset of the 1880s was an armpit-to-hip garment stiffened with whalebone stays, which helped the hips support heavy skirts that hung from the waist.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 July 2018
• There will be no more baubles: no whalebone dress or flashy silver ribbons for that bonnet (poor thing!).
  — Cynthia R. Greenlee, Bon Appetit, 14 June 2017
• There will be no more baubles: no whalebone dress or flashy silver ribbons for that bonnet (poor thing!).
  — Cynthia R. Greenlee, Bon Appetit, 14 June 2017
• Eyelets show where the bodice was once laced, and there are imprints from whalebone stiffeners that were used for shaping.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
• That particular task was messy; the harvesting of whale parts — oil to light lamps and use in cosmetics, baleen for whalebone corsets, tongue for food — was hard labor.
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021
• In George’s house, everything relates to whaling: a whalebone before the entrance, baleen above the door, pictures of whales on the walls in the living room and stacks of whale science books on shelves and side tables.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
• Must be able to play an accursed whalebone lyre while consuming five sticks of unsalted butter.
  — Keaton Patti, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
• Moynihan said there are no other whalebone gates remaining in the region — and possibly, the country.
  — Laney Ruckstuhl, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Its Flintstones-like tumble of houses were made from wood and whalebone and had no running water or electricity.
  — Emma O'Kelly, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2017
• This style was hugely popular during the Belle Époque, when the pouf ballooned to huge proportions, sometimes supported with strips of whalebone.
  — Nancy Schoeffler, courant.com, 15 July 2019
• Mark Tetpon makes original hoop masks that tell Iñupiaq stories in ivory, wood, fossilized whalebone and baleen.
  — Danielle Duclos, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2020
• Under the leadership of the indomitable Cristabel, and with scenery devised by a louche Russian painter, the children put on theatrical productions staged in a whalebone structure.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
• The city's notable Key Ranch bordered on our subdivision, complete with its old farmhouse and secret garden with its famed whalebone on display.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Traditionally fashioned with metal or whalebone stays and laced up the back, the waist-cinching, bust-elevating garment has cycled in and out of style for centuries.
  — Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2021
• Later iterations included girdles and corsets made of whalebone, iron and leather.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 8 May 2021
• The town’s oldest buildings are clustered together near the Utqiaġvik Presbyterian Church, marked with a whalebone sign dated 1898.
  — Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• Panniers, those underskirt structures that exaggerated hips, were a 16th-century version of shapewear; so were steel or whalebone and canvas corsets.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• The pictures represented all types of works including soapstone, alabaster, African wonderstone, wood, whalebone, ivory, grass.
  — Tamara Ikenberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 7 July 2017
• Later, visit the Itsanitaq Museum for a look at indigenous Arctic culture through the ages, marveling at hundreds of Inuit artifacts—from whalebone carvings and ancient harpoon heads to narwhal tusks.
  — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
• Made using materials like whalebone and metal, corsets contained and constrained women’s bodies, keeping them in place (literally and figuratively).
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024