How to Use Chinook in a Sentence

Chinook

noun

• Other Chinook have fared so badly in recent years that the state’s salmon fishery has had to close for the last two years.
  — Heather Knight, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
• Fish including the delta smelt, Chinook salmon and giant sturgeon are threatened with extinction.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
• The average weight for a Chinook ranges from 10 to 25 pounds.
  — Axios Portland, Axios, 23 Sep. 2024
• For the first time in 112 years, Chinook salmon are swimming freely in the Klamath Basin in Oregon.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
• The final dam, JC Boyle, is expected to come down this fall, just in time for Chinook salmon season.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
• The final dam, JC Boyle, is expected to come down this fall, just in time for Chinook salmon season.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2024
• In the Rocky Mountains, Chinook winds bring rapid warming and dry air, often melting snow.
  — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
• The whales have been struggling amid a scarcity of high-quality prey to eat, mainly Chinook salmon.
  — Adeel Hassan, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
• There was no open fire, no Chinook roasting on wooden skewers.
  — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• This year is expected to be one of the smallest runs of fall Chinook since the Yurok tribe began keeping track, McCovey said.
  — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• Regardless of the lawsuit’s outcome, though, there is broad agreement that the king salmon, also known as Chinook, are in crisis.
  — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• The Oregon incident comes on the heels of a mass Chinook salmon smolt die-off in Northern California.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• How to catch them: Chinook salmon are an awesome, majestic and powerful fish.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Studies have shown the retardant can harm plants, fish and other species, including steelhead trout and Chinook salmon.
  — oregonlive, 5 July 2023
• Last year, populations of fall-run Chinook salmon were so low that regulators shut down the fishing season along the coast.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• These orcas primarily feed on Chinook salmon, which are large, nutrient-rich fish and form a crucial part of their diet.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
• The schedule for removing the three dams calls for finishing in August or September, which will allow for Chinook salmon to migrate upstream past the sites.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
• Spring-run are threatened, and winter-run Chinook are endangered under the Endangered Species Act along with steelhead trout.
  — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 23 May 2024
• As chum and Chinook salmon returns in the rivers have dwindled and harvests have closed, residents have blamed Area M interception for contributing to those problems.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
• The most successful floating collector in Kock’s study captured roughly 60% of Chinook salmon, on a reservoir with far more favorable conditions than on those the Corps owns.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
• Salmon ‘are really struggling’ Spring-run Chinook salmon were once the cornerstone of California’s commercial fishery, with more than half a million fish caught in 1883 alone.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
• Since 1999, the spring-run Chinook population has been listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Pumping to supply farms and cities has contributed to the ecological degradation of the Delta, where threatened and endangered fish species include steelhead trout, two types of Chinook salmon, longfin smelt, Delta smelt and green sturgeon.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
• That move also stoked the ire of some environmental groups, which said the diversions allowed for lower flows in the San Joaquin River and would probably be harmful for Chinook salmon, among other concerns.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Advertisement Salmon populations have suffered declines in recent years, and fishing for Chinook salmon was banned along the California coast this year for a second year in a row.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2024
• That might mean options like sesame crusted Oregon albacore, wild Chinook crudo or a garden tomato gazpacho.
  — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 4 Sep. 2024
• The authors say in the statement that researchers may never fully know why orcas are bullying porpoises, but the action does highlight the importance of preserving their Chinook salmon prey.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
• Monitoring equipment documented other healthy yearling coho and Chinook salmon that came from downstream of the dam.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
• The state’s water plan is designed in part to save endangered fish species including Chinook salmon and Delta smelt from extinction in the environmentally sensitive ecosystem.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
• The animals primarily prey on Chinook salmon, which have also been declining in number because of overfishing, habitat loss and dams that impede their migrations.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025