How to Use whaling in a Sentence

whaling

noun

• But the end of whaling looked very different in the Bering Strait.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2021
• Wood filled it with whaling decor as a testament to their love of the sea.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
• By the 1960s, the Soviet Union was the world’s largest whaling nation.
  — Ryan Jones, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
• In the boom years of the 1950s, there were seven whaling companies in Abashiri.
  — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• To smooth the way, contentious points like logging and whaling are left by the wayside.
  — chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
• The edge of the Arctic pack ice straggled near Dutch whaling stations, and whales gathered along the edge of the ice.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• The bookmark is blank except for the store's name and address and a portrait of a whaling ship.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
• In the 1800s, Black seamen built cities through work in the whaling industry.
  — Nyeema C. Harris, Scientific American, 17 June 2022
• One of their ships made it some 1,250 miles, but the crew had to abandon the mission and were rescued by a whaling ship.
  — National Geographic, 24 Jan. 2020
• The average whaling boat spent over three years at sea.
  — Avi Asher-Schapiro, The New Republic, 18 July 2019
• Under its research whaling, Japan caught as many as 1,200 whales a year.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
• For Japan, whaling has long been about more than economics.
  — Ben Dooley, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• Last year, an intrusive tourist nearly came to blows with one of the whaling captains.
  — Erica Goode, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2016
• During the whaling season, everything else in Point Hope comes to a pause.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
• On Friday the ship stopped at Grytviken, a former whaling station on the island of South Georgia.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• By the time whaling was banned in 1935, they were hunted nearly to extinction.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
• The commercial whaling will be carried out by two groups.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2019
• With this much business, the practice of whaling was bound to have a cultural impact.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2017
• Although whaling is long over in the area, humpbacks still have a reason to fear ships in Cumberland Bay.
  — Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• Inside, the space looked like an old whaling town’s church by way of Axel Vervoordt.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2021
• In the eighteen-forties, at the height of open-boat whaling, some five thousand sperm whales were killed each year; in the nineteen-sixties, the number was six times as high.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• At a dance party in the gym, there was throat singing, and also reel music learned from 200-year-old Scottish whaling fleets that the Inuit have made their own.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2018
• In West Maui, the historic whaling town of Lahaina is home to excellent restaurants and a lively nightlife scene.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2021
• The whaling map is just one of 50 beautifully detailed illustrations that grace the pages of the book.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2017
• The aura of death and destruction and shattered hopes will hang over this once-major whaling village for years to come.
  — Lewis Abraham Leader, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Ours had been a long and arduous expedition, scouring the ocean for whaling ships that did not want to be found.
  — Kieran Mulvaney, National Geographic, 7 Nov. 2019
• But for a long time, the edge of the Arctic pack ice lingered near Dutch whaling stations, and because whales gathered along the edge of the ice, the Dutch benefited.
  — Dagomar Degroot, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
• The trouble was the whaling stations that were their salvation were on the north side of the island, and in between them was a mountain that had never been climbed.
  — Tim Jarvis, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2019
• The Whaling Museum tells the story of the dangerous and dramatic 18th-century whaling industry, and its 46-foot skeleton of a sperm whale is quite a sight.
  — Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 July 2024
• Commercial whaling significantly reduced the number of humpback whales, according to the NOAA.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024