How to Use blue whale in a Sentence
blue whale
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Today, finding so many blue whales so close to shore is unheard of.
—Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
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But unlike other species of whales — such as humpbacks, grey whales and blue whales — populations of the North Pacific right whale have been much slower to recover.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
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Monterey Bay Whale Watch spotted their first blue whale of the season on June 20, the organization announced.
—Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 24 June 2024
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So the giraffe appears to take the lead from the blue whale.
—Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
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In 2007, five blue whales were found dead in the channel.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2019
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The dispute comes down to two animals: the blue whale and the sperm whale.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2022
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This audio clip has been sped up by 3x to highlight the sound of the blue whale.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 July 2022
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And a blue whale weighs about 200 tons That’s a lot of cucumbers.
—Kara Driscoll, ajc, 11 May 2018
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The smallest dinosaurs were about the size of a pigeon, while the largest stretched longer than a blue whale.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
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Not just an ordinary cetacean but a blue whale, the biggest of the species.
—Tom Titus, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
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As the largest living mammals on Earth, blue whale moms have a big job to do.
—Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
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The scarred blue whale returned to the same bay for 15 years afterward.
—Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
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That means its longer than a Boeing 737 aircraft and a blue whale.
—Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2021
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The heart of a blue whale beats as infrequently as twice a minute.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
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The largest living organism on Earth is not the blue whale.
—Tom Shippey, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
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The blue whale suspended from the ceiling in the Hall of Ocean Life is also a must-see.
—Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 19 Dec. 2022
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Gray whales are seen from winter to spring, and blue whales are seen summer to fall.
—Vera Castaneda, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
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There are only a few sounds in the Antarctic blue whale repertoire.
—The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
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Even though the cells of a blue whale and of a fruit fly are roughly the same size, the whale’s cell has a lower metabolic rate.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2018
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The blue whale’s skull was showing and its dorsal fin was missing.
—Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022
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The fin whale, whose body is long and slender, is the second-largest mammalian on Earth after the blue whale.
—David Caraccio, sacbee, 23 Jan. 2018
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The largest one ever recorded came in at a whopping 43 feet long—nearly half the size of a blue whale.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
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According to the Smithsonian, the largest whale is the blue whale.
—Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
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The blue whale is, at the moment, the largest animal, extant or extinct, known to have lived.
—The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019
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Unlike the model, the original blue whale skull was featured in the new show.
—Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
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Gas from the field, known as Ca Voi Xanh or blue whale, would be sent through a pipeline to planned onshore power plants.
—Emily Glazer, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
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That’s according to scientists' first recordings of the heart of a blue whale.
—Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
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The researchers had to tally everything from giant species like the blue whale all the way down to the microbes that blanket the land and swirl in the oceans.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020
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Its bigger cousin – the blue whale – can swallow half a million calories in one gulp.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2012
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The blue whale calibrates its migrations to find the krill that sustains it.
—New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
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