How to Use minke whale in a Sentence

minke whale

noun

• This was the first time anybody had ever put a tag on a minke whale.
  — Rebecca Kessler, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2014
• So why did a fleet from one of the countries that signed on to the agreement just kill over 300 minke whales?
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
• The minke whale is the smallest baleen whale in Alaska waters.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
• Hours later, the fleet that left the northern post of Kushiro brought back their first catch: two minke whales.
  — Fox News, 2 July 2019
• The calls of minke whales, on the other hand, increased only marginally in the presence of loud noise.
  — Katherine Kornei, Science | AAAS, 18 Feb. 2020
• Within minutes, a minke whale’s sleek back rose just above the surface of the water.
  — Jennifer Billock, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2023
• The two minke whales that were harpooned are the first to be killed by Japan for commercial purposes in more than 30 years.
  — Ivan Watson and Michelle Lou, CNN, 2 July 2019
• Modern baleen whales include many of the world’s largest cetaceans, such as blue, fin, humpback, right, bowhead, and minke whales.
  — National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
• Five small boats set out from Japan’s northern port of Kushiro on Monday with a simple aim: to find and kill minke whales.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 1 July 2019
• Scientists are hoping to try the tag on other whales, such as humpbacks, minke whales and fin whales.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
• So rare, in fact, that Talty said this is only the sixth time researchers have seen orcas hunt a minke whale in Monterey Bay since 1991.
  — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 3 Apr. 2024
• A few years earlier, in 2007, a young minke whale was spotted swimming near the mouth of the canal after a historic rainstorm.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• Whale-watching income far outweighs the income from hunting fin and minke whales.
  — Joe Roman, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2020
• Experts say another minke whale has been found dead in state waters.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019
• Over Labor Day weekend, another dead minke whale washed up in Duxbury.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019
• Moments later, a minke whale passed a mere few feet in front of us, lifting its head and fins above the water in yet another close encounter.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
• Other filter-feeding baleen whales like blue, fin and minke whales produce much simpler songs that are more or less the same every year.
  — Will Dunham, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2018
• London residents were transfixed when a juvenile minke whale swam up the Thames last week and was injured on a lock.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 16 May 2021
• Despite the global outcry against Japan’s whale hunt, minke whales are not threatened with extinction.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
• Back in Kachemak Bay, the minke whale’s breach was followed by a lunch of halibut tacos for Herbst and his family, who were in Alaska for his mother’s 85th birthday.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
• For the first time in over 30 years, two minke whales were harpooned by Japanese whaling boats and brought back to port for commercial purposes.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 3 July 2019
• The conventional thinking has been that minke whales mainly chase krill, Eisert said.
  — Nick Perry, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Iceland, too, hunts minke whales for profit—even though Icelanders are eating less whale meat than ever before.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
• Rescuers freed an 18-foot minke whale entangled in fishing gear off the coast of Cape Ann last week and managed to keep it away from a great white shark that was lurking in the area, officials said.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• Japanese hunters caught and killed 122 pregnant minke whales during the annual summer hunt off the coast of Antarctica last year, a report has found.
  — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 31 May 2018
• Type A killer whales look similar to typical orcas (which are found worldwide), but mainly feed on minke whales; type Bs are smaller and many eat seals; type Cs go after fish.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2019
• The International Union for Conservation of Nature, which sets the conservation status of species, doesn’t judge minke whales to be at risk.
  — Rachel Fobar, National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2019
• This is happening even as ice-dependent minke whales struggle, and Adelie and chinstrap penguin numbers plummet at nearby colonies.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2017
• The highlight of our week was a whale-watching expedition on day two: Being surrounded by swimming seals and spotting minke whales in the distance felt far away from jostling other New Yorkers on the subway.
  — Ryan Craggs, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2018
• During the summer, Reykjavík sees higher numbers of minke whales and dolphins, while orcas congregate in West Iceland along the Snaefellsnes peninsula during the first half of the year.
  — Brandon Presser, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2023

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024