How to Use harbor seal in a Sentence

harbor seal

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  • Over the past few years, harbor seals have kept me coming back to the water.
    — Jennifer Berney, Outside Online, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Her son grabbed the line and pulled the fish into the net just as a harbor seal latched onto its tail.
    — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Later in 2016, the group of researchers watched and filmed a wolf hunting down a harbor seal near the mouth of a creek.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Some are leveled off by wind; one is shaped like a harbor seal.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2021
  • By the water four harbor seals bobbed and rolled between moored boats.
    — Suzanne MacNeille, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Three hundred feet to the west is West Brother, a low rocky isle whitewashed with bird poop where the harbor seals like to hang.
    — Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The wolf jumped into the water of Hallow Bay and grabbing the harbor seal’s tail, thrashing it around.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Gray seals have clawed paws, more like this harbor seal paw than a sea lion's flipper.
    — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
  • On the way back to the boat that evening, three harbor seals, their dark oily hair slicked back, seemed to be following our zodiac.
    — Emilie C. Harting, Philly.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • This abundance of food draws in sea lions, harbor seals and, more rarely, elephant seals, which breed at Año Nuevo to the south.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Polar bears will ride the ice for 150 miles looking for ringed and harbor seals, their favorite foodstuff.
    — Diane Bair and Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The other rescues this year include one harbor seal, two sea turtles and three Guadalupe fur seals.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • There's also Maya, the baby giraffe, who was born in May and Milo, the harbor seal pup, who was born just a few weeks later.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2018
  • The male harbor seal was lying on the beach shore and was clearly emaciated.
    — Katie Camero, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2018
  • Like human babies, harbor seal pups learn to change their pitch to target a parent's eardrums.
    — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Adjacent to the harbor seals pool, Husk Haus features a large corn roasting grill and will also sell brats, hot dogs and beer.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2018
  • Rent a kayak or BYO, then keep an eye out for puffins and harbor seals en route to this rugged speck just off the coast where amenities are scarce but views are plentiful.
    — Sarah Feldberg, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2017
  • SealNet is tailored to identify the harbor seal, a species with a penchant for posing on coasts in haulouts.
    — Sean Mowbray, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2022
  • On the rocky beach, lapped by the cold Pacific, curious harbor seals approach us.
    — Acacia Johnson, National Geographic, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Along with gray and harbor seals, the mix includes occasional harp seals and hooded seals.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Unlike parrots, elephants and Hoover the harbor seal, the great apes are not adept at mimicking sounds or even the basics of human speech.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
  • The aquarium’s Monterey Bay Cam also offers viewers a peek at the birds and sea mammals — like harbor seals and sea otters — that find refuge in the bay.
    — Mariel Padilla, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Now left to share his exhibit, the zoo said, is another harbor seal and a four-member family of gray seals.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Located off iconic Highway 1, the house sits above acres of scenic coastal trails where hikers can see harbor seal pups lining the beaches in spring.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Mammal-eating Bigg’s killer whales, for example, sometimes kill surplus amounts of harbor seals, which might allow calves to learn to hunt, per the study.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Sea otters, harbor seals and sea lions will often pop up in your vicinity.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The Maritime Aquarium had the harbor seal use this particular skill for her Super Bowl 56 pick.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • According to the aquarium, this is the harbor seal's fourth time making the facility's Seal Super Bowl Pick.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Rescued harbor seal pups Ravioli and Tomato adjust to their new home at Moody Gardens.
    — Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2018
  • In the 1990s, harbor seals began gathering at Children’s Pool, creating a rookery and polluted the area with waste.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017

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