How to Use monk seal in a Sentence

monk seal

noun

• The first two Hawaiian monk seals pups of 2018 have been born.
  — Fox News, 14 Mar. 2018
• The crew removed line from a monk seal on the expedition's first day.
  — Caleb Jones, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
• The crew removed line from a monk seal on the expedition’s first day.
  — Caleb Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2021
• The mother monk seal checked on her pup by barking as the newborn flapped its flippers.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• About half can be found in Greek waters, where an island or inlet might be home to just a few monk seals.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• The birth of a Hawaiian monk seal was recently captured on camera in Oahu.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 20 Apr. 2022
• And in another video from Hawaii this week, a woman was attacked by a monk seal while out swimming.
  — CNN, 30 July 2022
• In tiny Hana, a town on eastern Maui, a cinder cone shields a red-sand beach where nudists and endangered monk seals bake idly in the sun.
  — Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2023
• The killing of a monk seal can lead to a civil penalty or criminal conviction.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
• Just two species have not—southern resident killer whales, and Hawaiian monk seals.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 7 Aug. 2019
• Images of a Hawaiian monk seal being born on an Oahu beach have been captured on camera.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
• When the water’s calmer, parents and kids can stroll the shoreline and scan the surf for slumbering green sea turtles or Hawaiian monk seals.
  — Matt Villano, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Lehua's death comes just months after another female monk seal was found dead on an area beach.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
• The study found 18% of the posts showed a monk seal responding to some type of disturbance by looking, moving away, or mouthing or barking.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
• On the first day of the mission, the expedition rescued a four-year-old female Hawaiian monk seal from a fishing net wrapped around her neck.
  — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2021
• Hawaii is blessed with many beautiful creatures, some of which are impossible to spot anywhere else in the world, like the Hawaiian monk seal.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2022
• The baby monk seal is the 14th birthed by mother Right Spot and her first on Oahu, having typically given birth on the island of Molokai, where she was born.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
• Kostis, a Mediterranean monk seal, was a playful creature, beloved by residents of and visitors to the Greek island of Alonissos.
  — Washington Post, 24 July 2021
• In July, one woman was injured while swimming off the shore of Hawaii when a mother monk seal attacked her while defending her pup.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023
• Spirits were high in late January when rescuers released Malama the Hawaiian monk seal back into the ocean.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• The harassment of wildlife like dolphins, turtles and Hawaiian monk seals is a recurring problem.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
• An endangered monk seal pup found dead on the North Shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu last month was most likely killed in a dog attack, federal officials said.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 26 July 2023
• The Guam flycatcher, the Caribbean monk seal, and the blackfin cisco are now completely extinct from our planet.
  — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2018
• An Alabama man was fined $1,500 for touching a Hawaiian monk seal as well as harassing a sea turtle on Kauai and then posting the videos on social media.
  — Fox News, 27 Aug. 2018
• Some historians have postulated that the monster could have been a Mediterranean monk seal.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• Critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals give birth on the shores.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• The site also has yielded nearly 1 ton of animal bone, including the remains of extinct Caribbean monk seals and whales.
  — Bydavid Malakoff, science.org, 11 Apr. 2023
• Separately, tourist Alex Magala posted an Instagram video of his encounter with a monk seal from his trip, which appears to have been in May of this year.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2021
• In the meantime, count on Sirocco to boom loudly online, for kākāpō and many others—from monk seals to conservation dogs to earthworms—with surplus charm and unending charisma.
  — Claire Voon, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
• The program spends its time observing monk seals on the northern Hawaiian islands, putting them in the perfect position to observe this awkward young seal who can’t eat eels properly.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024