How to Use whale in a Sentence

whale

noun
Definition of whalenext
Synonyms for whalenext
  • 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
  • Fewer whales and calves were seen at breeding grounds during that time, as well.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • And almost no one—except for the conservative cabal that bagged the whale—had heard of him.
    — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023

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