How to Use narwhal in a Sentence

narwhal

noun
Definition of narwhalnext
  • The one species, the narwhal, is an Arctic whale known for its huge nine-foot tusk.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
  • She's been a seal, an Oreo Blizzard, a narwhal and more.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Drone footage of wild narwhals has revealed that the whales use their tusks to hunt fish.
    — Kacey Deamer, NBC News, 30 May 2017
  • All of this traffic has made the narwhal’s world a much louder one.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Both narwhal and belugas mate in the spring, as the sea ice is breaking up.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 20 June 2019
  • In his way, of course, Nemo is a narwhal, a stature that Bandealy embraces with a real glee.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2018
  • Or perhaps a narwhal uses its tusk to flush out prey on the ocean bottom.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Wearing a blue narwhal costume for the plunge was Christen Ng of Naperville.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Her new tattoo joins plenty of others: a fierce tiger, a narwhal and a spaceship, to name just a few.
    — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The three whales all had pectoral fins shaped like belugas and tails shaped like narwhals.
    — Fox News, 21 June 2019
  • Despite their apparent noise, the drones dont seem to disturb the narwhals.
    — Dyllan Furness, Fox News, 17 May 2017
  • The misshapen right pectoral fin and scars on the mottled many-shades-of-gray skin of one narwhal looked familiar.
    — Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Gray whales don’t echolocate like orcas and narwhals do.
    — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, 20 July 2019
  • Friedrich Nietzsche was not a narwhal, and never will be.
    — David P. Barash, WSJ, 20 July 2022
  • Like any whale, the narwhal needs to surface to breathe — on average, every four to six minutes.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
  • The area abounds with polar bears, harp and ringed seals, millions of birds, narwhal, beluga, and bowhead whales.
    — Peter Kujawinski, The New Yorker, 11 May 2017
  • It's filled with gigantic whale skulls, extinct dolphin bones, and eight-foot-long narwhal tusks.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The Acousonde device, however, attaches to a ridge on the narwhals back via a magnesium link.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
  • Researchers have long debated what the 10-foot-long tooth that erupts from a narwhal’s head is actually for.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Avocados, llamas and narwhals are in, as are earth tones and neutral colors like white and gray.
    — Washington Post, 25 July 2019
  • Little was known about the tusk's function because narwhals spend most of their lives hidden underneath the Arctic ice.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Even more surprising was that the animal's mother had been a narwhal and the father a beluga.
    — Jason Bittel, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2019
  • The all white belugas are a cold-water species native to the arctic and sub-arctic north whose closest relative among cetaceans is the narwhal.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The narwhal is a year-round Arctic resident, summering in ice-free coastal waters.
    — National Geographic, 3 Feb. 2020
  • One appeared to charge at him with the antique tusk of a narwhal — a type of whale — while another sprayed him with a fire extinguisher before knocking him down.
    — NBC News, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The bizarre episode added further intrigue to the narwhal’s fabled reputation.
    — NBC News, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Or that people, for centuries, thought that narwhal tusks were unicorn horns, and that they were imbued with medicinal powers?
    — Megan Gambino, Smithsonian, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Female killer whales, as well as narwhals and short-finned pilot and beluga whales, are the only other animals who go through menopause.
    — Darcey Steinke, Time, 28 June 2019
  • Below us is Fram Strait, a deep ocean channel and one of the Arctic’s richest feeding grounds, where narwhals, bowhead whales, and beluga whales gather each spring to feast at the ice edge.
    — Christian Åslund, National Geographic, 2 July 2019
  • Strangely, the narwhal, a deep-diving Arctic whale known for its unicorn-like tooth, fall into neither of these categories.
    — National Geographic, 8 June 2018

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