How to Use bowhead whale in a Sentence

bowhead whale

noun

• The books in the Collector's Corner had to go, but that freed up space for a huge bowhead whale skull encased in glass.
  — Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
• The bear had been attracted to the large quantity of bowhead whale meat Gordon left in his yard.
  — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Feb. 2020
• Three involved finback whales, and one each involved sperm and bowhead whales.
  — Author: Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2018
• The best comparison to the song of the bowhead whale, Stafford told The Washington Post, is a jazz musician, riffing on the fly.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• The old shark far surpasses the next oldest vertebrate, the bowhead whale, which only lives to 211 years.
  — Danielle Hall, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2010
• At the other extreme, some specimens of bowhead whale appear to be more than 120 years old, judging from the age of harpoons lodged in their flesh.
  — George Church, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2012
• In the warmer, more ice-free Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas, biologists point to the bowhead whale as a symbol of resilience and adaptation.
  — Jenna Kunze, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2020
• But out on the jumbled sea ice that stretches from town to the horizon, local residents are focused on bowhead whales.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• Tourists posed nearby for photos beneath an archway made from the lower jawbones of a bowhead whale.
  — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
• The story implied that Paul Watson, the man who went on a rampage over the killing of a bowhead whale, is an environmentalist.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Aug. 2017
• Traveling out here, where huge bones from bowhead whales litter the beach, takes a 90-minute jet ride north from Anchorage and another hour by small plane over the Bering Sea.
  — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017
• Other whales included the North Atlantic right whale and bowhead whale eating more than 1,825 tons of zooplankton a year.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2021
• A few years ago, one of the women was processing a bowhead whale’s kidneys, saw that the part had festered and shared the observation with Stimmelmayr.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
• While the blue whale is the largest whale, honorable mention goes to the bowhead whale, a species residing nearly exclusively in the Arctic and stretching up to 60 feet long.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
• Below us is Fram Strait, a deep ocean channel and one of the Arctic’s richest feeding grounds, where narwhals, bowhead whales, and beluga whales gather each spring to feast at the ice edge.
  — Christian Åslund, National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• Gordon agreed to pay a $4,500 fine and will spend a year on supervised release that will bar him from hunting any marine mammals other than bowhead whales.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2019
• The spring softening gives way to bowhead whale and caribou hunts, snowmobile treks and the mirthful Nalukataq whaling festival.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 18 Jan. 2021
• In recent decades, the village of about 200 people has seen rising numbers of polar bears, many drawn to the area by an Arctic Ocean beach where whaling crews discard bowhead whale carcasses.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2021
• Killer whales have been documented carrying out skilled and well-planned attacks on much larger animals like blue whales and bowhead whales.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2018
• As orcas move in, Indigenous communities and scientists have observed that more bowhead whale carcasses have been left tattered in the seas, the Times reports.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
• While many iconic Arctic species, such as walruses and polar bears, are threatened by sea ice loss and changing availability and timing of snowfall, among other trends, one species that seems to be benefiting is the bowhead whale, the report said.
  — Andrew Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2020
• Polar bears might be the least vulnerable, with four other important species—bearded seals, walruses, bowhead whales and ringed seals—probably falling somewhere in the middle.
  — Adam Aton, Scientific American, 3 July 2018
• And 11 Native villages farther north are authorized by the International Whaling Commission to hunt bowhead whales.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2018
• The scientists developed a new methodology that used hydrophones to count bowhead whales beneath the ice, rather than extrapolating the population based on a count of the visible bowheads passing by a single, ice-free locale.
  — Krista Langlois, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
• Sea ice benefited the Dutch, redirecting the republic's voyages of northern exploration into bowhead whale feeding grounds off Norway’s Svalbard archipelago.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• Expanding sea ice redirected Dutch voyages of northern exploration into bowhead whale feeding grounds off Norway’s Svalbard archipelago.
  — Dagomar Degroot, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018

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