How to Use whaling in a Sentence

whaling

noun
  • But the end of whaling looked very different in the Bering Strait.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Wood filled it with whaling decor as a testament to their love of the sea.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • By the 1960s, the Soviet Union was the world’s largest whaling nation.
    Ryan Jones, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
  • In the boom years of the 1950s, there were seven whaling companies in Abashiri.
    Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • To smooth the way, contentious points like logging and whaling are left by the wayside.
    chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
  • The edge of the Arctic pack ice straggled near Dutch whaling stations, and whales gathered along the edge of the ice.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The bookmark is blank except for the store's name and address and a portrait of a whaling ship.
    Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • In the 1800s, Black seamen built cities through work in the whaling industry.
    Nyeema C. Harris, Scientific American, 17 June 2022
  • One of their ships made it some 1,250 miles, but the crew had to abandon the mission and were rescued by a whaling ship.
    National Geographic, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The average whaling boat spent over three years at sea.
    Avi Asher-Schapiro, The New Republic, 18 July 2019
  • Under its research whaling, Japan caught as many as 1,200 whales a year.
    Washington Post, 2 July 2019
  • For Japan, whaling has long been about more than economics.
    Ben Dooley, New York Times, 1 July 2019
  • Last year, an intrusive tourist nearly came to blows with one of the whaling captains.
    Erica Goode, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2016
  • During the whaling season, everything else in Point Hope comes to a pause.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
  • On Friday the ship stopped at Grytviken, a former whaling station on the island of South Georgia.
    New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • By the time whaling was banned in 1935, they were hunted nearly to extinction.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The commercial whaling will be carried out by two groups.
    Mari Yamaguchi, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2019
  • With this much business, the practice of whaling was bound to have a cultural impact.
    Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Although whaling is long over in the area, humpbacks still have a reason to fear ships in Cumberland Bay.
    Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Inside, the space looked like an old whaling town’s church by way of Axel Vervoordt.
    New York Times, 29 May 2021
  • In the eighteen-forties, at the height of open-boat whaling, some five thousand sperm whales were killed each year; in the nineteen-sixties, the number was six times as high.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • At a dance party in the gym, there was throat singing, and also reel music learned from 200-year-old Scottish whaling fleets that the Inuit have made their own.
    Stephen Rodrick, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2018
  • In West Maui, the historic whaling town of Lahaina is home to excellent restaurants and a lively nightlife scene.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2021
  • The whaling map is just one of 50 beautifully detailed illustrations that grace the pages of the book.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The aura of death and destruction and shattered hopes will hang over this once-major whaling village for years to come.
    Lewis Abraham Leader, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Ours had been a long and arduous expedition, scouring the ocean for whaling ships that did not want to be found.
    Kieran Mulvaney, National Geographic, 7 Nov. 2019
  • But for a long time, the edge of the Arctic pack ice lingered near Dutch whaling stations, and because whales gathered along the edge of the ice, the Dutch benefited.
    Dagomar Degroot, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The trouble was the whaling stations that were their salvation were on the north side of the island, and in between them was a mountain that had never been climbed.
    Tim Jarvis, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Once a prolific whaling station, Godthul, a bay on South Georgia's northern coast, has been reclaimed by nature.
    Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 June 2023
  • The former whaling port on the Atlantic Coast has a small harbor and medieval center within driving distance of beautiful beaches.
    Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2024

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