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gray whale

NOUN
  1. medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific

How To Use gray whale In A Sentence

  • In 1988 Sea World freed three gray whales that had become tangled in drift nets.
  • Makah whalers threw harpoons on three occasions, but the harpoons did not attach to a gray whale on any of these attempts.
  • First Putin the conservation warrior joined naturalists chasing a gray whale across the North Pacific, and fired a skin-sampling harpoon into it with a crossbow.
  • On May 17, 1999, a week into the hunt, the Makah killed a 30-tonne gray whale, striking it with harpoons and then killing it with a gunshot to the back of the head.
  • Sea World freed three gray whales in 1988 which had been tangled in drift nets.
  • From 1845 to about 1900, American whalers hunted gray whales on their winter grounds in Baja California, as well as their summer grounds in the subarctic.
  • From late December to April, scores of California charter boats search out migrating gray whales for tourists.
  • When the Makahs stopped whaling in the 1920s it was because commercial whalers, harpooning all they could find, had nearly driven the gray whales to extinction.
  • Gray whales hug the west coast as they move south.
  • Laboratory tests suggest that gray whale baleen, and possibly skin, may be resistant to damage by oil.
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