How to Use blue whale in a Sentence

blue whale

noun

• So the giraffe appears to take the lead from the blue whale.
  — Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
• In 2007, five blue whales were found dead in the channel.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2019
• The dispute comes down to two animals: the blue whale and the sperm whale.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2022
• This audio clip has been sped up by 3x to highlight the sound of the blue whale.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 July 2022
• And a blue whale weighs about 200 tons That’s a lot of cucumbers.
  — Kara Driscoll, ajc, 11 May 2018
• The smallest dinosaurs were about the size of a pigeon, while the largest stretched longer than a blue whale.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
• Not just an ordinary cetacean but a blue whale, the biggest of the species.
  — Tom Titus, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
• As the largest living mammals on Earth, blue whale moms have a big job to do.
  — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
• That means its longer than a Boeing 737 aircraft and a blue whale.
  — Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2021
• The heart of a blue whale beats as infrequently as twice a minute.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• The largest living organism on Earth is not the blue whale.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
• The blue whale suspended from the ceiling in the Hall of Ocean Life is also a must-see.
  — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 19 Dec. 2022
• Gray whales are seen from winter to spring, and blue whales are seen summer to fall.
  — Vera Castaneda, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
• There are only a few sounds in the Antarctic blue whale repertoire.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
• Even though the cells of a blue whale and of a fruit fly are roughly the same size, the whale’s cell has a lower metabolic rate.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2018
• The blue whale’s skull was showing and its dorsal fin was missing.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022
• 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
• The largest one ever recorded came in at a whopping 43 feet long—nearly half the size of a blue whale.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
• According to the Smithsonian, the largest whale is the blue whale.
  — Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• The blue whale is, at the moment, the largest animal, extant or extinct, known to have lived.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019
• Unlike the model, the original blue whale skull was featured in the new show.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• Gas from the field, known as Ca Voi Xanh or blue whale, would be sent through a pipeline to planned onshore power plants.
  — Emily Glazer, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
• That’s according to scientists' first recordings of the heart of a blue whale.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• The researchers had to tally everything from giant species like the blue whale all the way down to the microbes that blanket the land and swirl in the oceans.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020
• Its bigger cousin – the blue whale – can swallow half a million calories in one gulp.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2012
• The blue whale calibrates its migrations to find the krill that sustains it.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
• Scientists already knew that a blue whale's pulse must slow down at depth.
  — Fox News, 29 Nov. 2019
• But blue whales have accordion-like skin that stretches and could pop the suction cup tag right off.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Nov. 2019
• Whatever the species, the blue whale dwarfed its attackers.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2021
• The strongest model can pull 2,000 times its own weight — the equivalent of a human dragging a blue whale around the beach.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2015

Last Updated: 28 May 2024