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Whale in sentence

224 examples of Whale in a sentence

This is a bowhead whale.
This very whale right here could be over 250 years old.
This whale could have been born around the start of the Industrial Revolution.
Is London a great big whale?
And yet, if you look at the whale shark, which is the other plankton-eating large shark, its diversity is much greater.
You probably saw the humpback whale footage we got a month or two ago off County Wexford.
A hundred years ago we were looking at coal, of course, and we were looking at whale oil and we were looking at crude oil.
So at that point, 1912, we selected crude oil over whale oil and some more coal.
["Plankton" comes from the Greek "planktos" for wandering] My fellow plankton came in all sizes, from tiny algae and bacteria to animals longer than a blue whale.
They'd been struck by a sperm whale, which had ripped a catastrophic hole in the ship's hull.
He's a prisoner, just like Jonah inside the whale.
Power of shape: here's a whale.
We've seen that the fins of this whale have tubercles on them.
Our brain weighs between 1.2 and 1.5 kilos, but elephant brains weigh between four and five kilos, and whale brains can weigh up to nine kilos, which is why scientists used to resort to saying that our brain must be special to explain our cognitive abilities.
I also traveled to Cape Cod to look at the plight of the North Atlantic right whale, because this to me was one of the most surprising things about my time at sea, and what it made me think about.
These are Inuit children cutting whale blubber.
"Yeah, let's jump in." "Look, there's a whale!
And this is in the center of Paris, in the belly of the whale.
And it's about a kid who gets a blue whale as a pet but it's a punishment and it ruins his life.
He lives in San Francisco — very tough city to own a blue whale in.
But underneath the jacket is this case, and that's the cover underneath the book, the jacket, and there's an ad that offers a free 30-day risk-free trial for a blue whale.
And you can just send in a self-addressed stamped envelope and we'll send you a whale.
It says, "Dear people, I bet you 10 bucks you won't send me a blue whale.
Eliot Gannon (age 6)." (Laughter) (Applause) So what Eliot and the other kids who send these in get back is a letter in very small print from a Norwegian law firm — (Laughter) — that says that due to a change in customs laws, their whale has been held up in Sognefjord, which is a very lovely fjord, and then it just kind of talks about Sognefjord and Norwegian food for a little while.
But it finishes off by saying that your whale would love to hear from you.
And when you call and leave him a message, you just, on the outgoing message, it's just whale sounds and then a beep, which actually sounds a lot like a whale sound.
And they get a picture of their whale too.
It's just that I've been so busy because school started, as you might not know, probably, since you're a whale, you don't know, and I'm calling you to just say, to wish you a merry Christmas.
Like them, many species of whales saw their numbers drastically reduced by 200 years of whaling, where they were hunted and killed for their whale meat, oil and whale bone.
Unfortunately, many people still think that whale conservationists like myself do what we do only because these creatures are charismatic and beautiful.
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