How to Use right whale in a Sentence

right whale

noun

• The North Atlantic right whale is among the rarest whale species in the world.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2023
• There are only about 450 right whales left in the world.
  — USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
• There are only a little more than 400 of the right whales left.
  — Washington Post, 3 July 2019
• And there’s more good news for right whales, Monsell adds.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 28 Feb. 2020
• Watch for sharks and southern right whales from your suite’s deck.
  — Kitson Jazynka, National Geographic, 14 June 2019
• This was the first dead North Atlantic right whale to be found in U.S. waters this year.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• The lone right whale calf swims underneath the Morehead City port pier.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2023
• The next day, another dead right whale was spotted in the same body of water.
  — Amanda Coletta, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2019
• The skeleton of another right whale lies below on the ocean floor.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• This area near the Nantucket Shoals wasn’t always such a right whale hot spot.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022
• The North Atlantic right whale is one of the world’s most endangered whales with fewer than 350 left.
  — oregonlive, 9 Jan. 2023
• The museum currently has a right mandible from a right whale, which was found in 1907.
  — USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
• If the provision is passed, Fuller said, the North Atlantic right whale will not survive the decade that the measure is in place.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
• The right whale population was closer to 450 just a few years ago.
  — Patrick Whittle, courant.com, 5 Sep. 2021
• Blue whales were especially prized, and were larger and faster than the right whale, but were no match for Larsen’s fleets.
  — Lucy Jakub, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
• North Atlantic right whales have been on the brink of extinction before.
  — Amanda Coletta, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2019
• Since the start of June, eight right whales have been found dead in Canadian waters, the Globe reported last month.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• And the one entanglement that occurred over 20 years ago did not result in a right whale death.
  — Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 1 Aug. 2023
• The purpose: to prevent the boats from hitting an endangered right whale.
  — Douglas Kennedy, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2022
• The North Atlantic right whale has seen a 30% population decline over the last ten years.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• Many scientists believe that climate change is partly to blame for the uptick in right whale deaths.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2020
• Whaling ships pursued all types of whales for the next two centuries, including blue, sperm, and right whales.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• One of the rarest species of whales, a North Atlantic right whale, was found dead on a beach in North Carolina last week, wildlife officials said.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2020
• Two years ago, no calves were spotted among returning right whales.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 28 Feb. 2020
• Those waters are also home to the declining North Atlantic right whale, which numbers about 340 in the world.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
• Some lose it after birth, while others – including the humpback and right whales – have short hairs on their face.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
• Some species are running out of time Thousands of right whales once swam in the North Atlantic, but today there are only about 411 left.
  — Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2019
• The 17-year-old mother, named for a callosity near her blowhole that looks like a snow cone, no longer had the same girth or the dark black skin of a healthy right whale.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• North Atlantic right whales like this one struggle to free themselves from fishing gear.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
• Sixteen of the whales stranded in the last three months have been humpbacks, nearly half as many as washed ashore in all of 2017, a peak year for deaths of both humpbacks and right whales.
  — Winston Choi-Schagrin, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024