How to Use whaler in a Sentence

whaler

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  • The mummies of Aleut whalers have been found in its caves.
    — Mike Coppock, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Mark pins a 14 or so foot tiger shark alongside the team's 17 foot whaler.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2013
  • Right before the hunt, the whalers sang a song asking the whale to give itself.
    — Krista Langlois, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The whalers would then get out on the water as quickly as possible to hunt.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Whalers from around the world flocked to this island as a place to berth their vessels between hunts in the southern seas.
    — Kraig Becker, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2017
  • That hunch was confirmed by whalers in New England in the 1700s poking around with spades in the rectums of dead sperm whales.
    — Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
  • As of 2019, Port and Starboard have moved on to preying on another shark species, the bronze whaler.
    — National Geographic, 16 July 2019
  • Bronze whaler sharks have emerged as new mid-ranking predators in the area, said Towner.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • One of my great-great-grandfathers was a whaler who came to New Bedford from the West Indies.
    — Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 1 May 2020
  • One keeper, Ted Pedersen, was the son of a whaler active in the Arctic.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Individual whalers had their own songs to call the whales to them.
    — Krista Langlois, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Such scrimshaws were often made by New England whalers.
    — Palm Beach Post, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2019
  • What was once a sleepy island of whalers and fisherman is now the Hamptons of Germany.
    — Garrett Munce, Town & Country, 4 May 2023
  • New species like bronze whalers and sevengill sharks have moved into False Bay.
    — David Shiffman, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Four whalers are set adrift after a violent storm sinks their ship.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
  • One-quarter of all adult females killed by whalers prove to be postmenopausal, as judged by the condition of their ovaries.
    — Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The scientist cut a slice out of the bone to count the layers, then filled a hollow in the bone with plastic and returned it to the whaler with a write-up about his whale’s age.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Then, the islands were a place for transient workers: whalers, trappers and miners.
    — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Thom Browne’s models have been football players and figure skaters, sailors and whalers.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 6 July 2017
  • Rats first came to the Galápagos along with pirates or whalers sometime in the 17th or 18th century.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2019
  • The ice cover in the Bering Sea in February this year was the lowest recorded since whalers began keeping records in 1850.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2019
  • Our big outing is to sail our Boston whaler, anchor at a beach and get sandwiches.
    — Catherine Bigelow, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2018
  • The New York Times reported that whalers likely introduced the goats to the islands as food nearly 200 years ago.
    — NBC News, 15 Jan. 2020
  • That's when white explorers, fur traders, whalers, gold miners and immigrants reached the state.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2018
  • In the early part of the past century, whalers who docked their ships in Lahaina, in western Maui, would drink at the saloon in the Pioneer Inn.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But De Long had not heeded the advice of whalers who worked in the area and who knew from experience that the current would not be strong enough to carry the ship through.
    — National Geographic, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Then whalers with similar roles were called to dance — like all captains and all harpooners.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
  • The whaler was probably built and put to sea only roughly less than nine months after the trees were felled — a short amount of time in that period.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Rather 18th and 19th century whalers scoured the oceans for the massive beasts, who were valued for their meat and blubber, and noted each kill in ship logbooks.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Other nations soon followed, and by the mid-20th century, industrial whalers from the United States, Japan, Russia and elsewhere had likely massacred 90 percent of the planet’s blue whale population.
    — Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024

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