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
• Last year, there were 17 confirmed right whale deaths – a dozen in Canada, the rest in the US.
  — Patrick Whittle, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Last year, 17 right whales died — and that’s just those that researchers know of, Mayo said.
  — Laney Ruckstuhl, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
• 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
• George writes in the winter of 2000, only one right whale calf was spotted.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
• 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
• North Pacific right whales are baleen whales that can grow to be 64 feet long and 70 years old if left alone.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
• 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
• In January, a young right whale washed up dead on a Martha's Vineyard beach.
  — CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
• 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
• The request is designed to help reduce ship strikes, which are one of the major causes of death for right whales.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Guests visiting from May to October should look to the coast for the chance to spot a humpback or North Atlantic right whale.
  — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024
• Many scientists believe that climate change is partly to blame for the uptick in right whale deaths.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2020
• Over the past year, there have been a record 18 deaths and zero births, and the population of North Atlantic right whales has dwindled.
  — World Staff, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2018
• Some whale species, such as the North Atlantic right whale, have dwindled to fewer than 360 individuals.
  — Jared Formanek, CNN, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024