How to Use fin whale in a Sentence

fin whale

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Given the fin whale’s life span of around 90 years, the memory of that threat may still affect their collective behavior, such as avoiding gathering in large groups.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2022
• Preliminary necropsy results show that a young fin whale that beached itself and died at Cape Henlopen State Park last week was riddled with parasites.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 June 2016
• During a four-hour span, the sightings were mind-blowing: 55 humpback whales, 25 harbor porpoise, four killer whales (orcas), four fin whales, along with masses of sea lions too numerous to count.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Once again, genetic analyses revealed that the fin whale meat came from a single animal that had been caught in Japan and had been sold in Japanese markets since September 2007.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2010

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024