How to Use fin whale in a Sentence

fin whale

noun
Definition of fin whalenext
  • The fin whales is the second-largest mammal in the world, after the blue whale.
    — Washington Post, 29 May 2020
  • The readings turned out to match the frequencies of fin whale calls.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2021
  • There are 14 types of baleen whales, including the humpback, blue, and fin whales.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Minke and fin whales have short, coarse baleen, which is ideal for eating large fish and krill.
    — Christian Åslund, National Geographic, 2 July 2019
  • The fin whale, whose body is long and slender, is the second-largest mammalian on Earth after the blue whale.
    — David Caraccio, sacbee, 23 Jan. 2018
  • All cellular species, from E. coli to fin whales, have a core set of genes in common.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 May 2015
  • Above, a dead fin whale waits to get butchered at a whaling plant before being sent to Japan.
    — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Experts at the museum suspect the carcass was a fin whale based on the size.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2024
  • In addition, the carcasses of a pygmy sperm whale and a fin whale also have been found ashore.
    — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 25 May 2021
  • The second-largest whale, the fin whale, waits for its turn to be butchered at a whaling plant in Iceland before being sent to Japan.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Scientists are hoping to try the tag on other whales, such as humpbacks, minke whales and fin whales.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Since then, researchers have found other species of whale that sing, including blue whales, fin whales and minke whales.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 June 2019
  • In one move, a lunging fin whale can engulf a volume of water that’s bigger than its own body.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2012
  • Meanwhile, on the Zodiac’s port side, a fin whale appeared; soon after that, a school of dolphins began to play around the boat.
    — Walter Nicklin, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Humpback whales and fin whales are often seen year-round, while blue whales are more common sights during the summer, Askari said.
    — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • At least one 55-foot fin whale died of tar poisoning, and health officials slapped a temporary ban on seafood from the area.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
  • In 2019, a fin whale beached itself along the Gulf of California in Mexico.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Compare this to the fin whale, the second largest animal ever: typically 80 feet long and 60 tons—less than half the blue whale’s weight.
    — Eric M. Keen, Scientific American, 31 July 2020
  • Iceland is the only country that allows whaling of the endangered fin whale, the second-largest whale species.
    — Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • In Ireland, researchers were worried that a 60-foot bloated fin whale would explode.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Baleen whales—filter feeders that include blue whales, fin whales and humpback whales—make noises via a larynx, or voice box.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The lion’s share of this category is made up of baleen whales such as the fin whale, which has a biomass of eight million metric tons—around 60 percent of the aquatic mammals.
    — Jan Dönges, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The fin whale sprawled at my feet will enter the annals of science, but will see little ceremony beyond that.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 31 May 2018
  • Finding more ways to use fin whale seismology could mean adding less to the cacophony.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
  • The Antarctic Endeavour glides across the water’s silky surface as dozens of fin whales spray rainbows from their blowholes into a fairy tale icescape of massive glaciers.
    — Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • This fin whale was a victim of the Bay Area’s bustling commerce, ships steaming through the Golden Gate with little regard for our ocean-going mammalian relatives.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 31 May 2018
  • Israel's Nature and Parks Authority has said that a young, 55-foot-long fin whale and six baby sea turtles have so far died of tar poisoning.
    — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Over the course of the five-hour flight, the team documented two endangered sperm whales, two fin whales, two True’s beaked whales, hundreds of dolphins, dozens of ocean sunfish, and several basking sharks.
    — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
  • On reviewing the dive videotapes, expedition leader Craig Smith and his team saw that the skeleton was probably either a blue or a fin whale.
    — Crispin T. S. Little, Scientific American, 23 May 2017
  • Most whale populations have not yet been recovered, including larger whales such as blue whales, fin whales and sei whales.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 9 June 2019

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