How to Use whale shark in a Sentence

whale shark

noun

• In it, the whale shark is seen slowly swimming around the boat.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• The boat’s net courses through the water like a gape-mouthed whale shark.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• The whale shark then poked its head out of the water again, and Sailor touched her nose with the whale shark's snout.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• Today, whale sharks are the largest fish in the sea—growing to nearly the size of a school bus.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 4 June 2018
• The carcasses washed up on the beach range in size from small bait fish to a 26-foot-long whale shark.
  — Jonathan Serrie, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
• Kern went swimming with whale sharks in the Philippines.
  — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2023
• Those on the boat estimated the whale shark was 25 to 30 feet long.
  — Doug Phillips, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• Sharks are rare, but whale sharks visit the region in the early spring.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2020
• Megalodons are larger than whale sharks, but the largest shark alive is a whale shark.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• The whale shark, always a fish of extremes, has more than three hundred rows of tiny teeth.
  — Katherine Rundell, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Water sports, like diving with whale sharks off the coast of Cozumel, are a major draw.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
• People sometimes get brushed as a whale shark swims by.
  — Linda Lombardi, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2019
• Older whale sharks will therefore have less and less Carbon-14.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2020
• Two whale sharks, the largest fish on the planet, glided around me, their blue-gray skin a Morse code of chalky dots and dashes.
  — Shamilee Vellu, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• Some believe the whale shark is really the largest fish to ever live.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• The whale shark’s massive fins, skin and liver oil are highly prized.
  — Discover Magazine, 26 July 2017
• During the summer months, whale sharks come to the waters around Cancun.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2024
• And whale sharks, which can reach up to 39 feet in length, conserve body heat simply because of their size.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023
• The Georgia Aquarium — the largest in the U.S. — boasts gigantic whale sharks among its denizens.
  — Linda Lombardi, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2019
• Using this method, the team found that based on vertebrae stripes, a 32-foot-long whale shark would be about 50 years old.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2020
• At over 25 tons, the whale shark is the second largest fish in the world, and yet it’s fueled mostly by plankton, plants, and algae.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• In Cabo San Lucas, swim with whale sharks and supper along with sea lions.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2019
• In season, a maximum of 14 tour boats are allowed to look for whale sharks.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 22 May 2023
• The whale shark Krivohlavek saw was reportedly around 20-25 feet long.
  — Eileen Reslen, Country Living, 7 Nov. 2018
• The largest shark is typically the largest fish, too, like today’s largest living fish, the whale shark.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• The largest shark alive is a whale shark, according to the Smithsonian.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• But the whale shark tissue of these whale sharks from Ningaloo was different.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• But, whereas the whale shark can grow to the length of a subway car, WasteShark is only five feet long, three and a half feet wide, and a foot and a half thick.
  — Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Photos of the encounter show the whale shark breaking through the army of barracudas and swimming through the pure blue ocean.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2019
• Adult whale sharks do not stay with their young after birth, and only around 10 percent of them make it to adulthood.
  — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024