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How to use the word WHALE in a Sentence?

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Lolita will receive the highest quality care as the team works to make relocation possible in the next 18 to 24 months, i know Lolita wants to get to free waters. I don’t care what anyone says. She’s lived this long to have this opportunity. And my only mission is (…) to help this whale get free.

Miami Seaquarium

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know Lolita wants to get to free waters. I don’t care what anyone says. She’s lived this long to have this opportunity. And my only mission is (…) to help this whale get free.

Jim Irsay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are no known connections between any of these offshore wind activities and any whale strandings, regardless of species.

Benjamin Laws

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no information that would support any suggestion that any of the equipment that’s being used in support of wind development for the site characterization surveys could directly lead to the death of a whale.

Benjamin Laws

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have veterinarians and very skilled biologists and pathologists who will be on scene to conduct the necropsy of the animal, they’ll open up the whale and they’ll go through every organ system and look to observe if there’s any gross lesions, anything obviously wrong with the different organ systems, and they’ll take extensive samples from the whale, which will then send out to a lab, or multiple labs actually for analysis.

Erin Fougeres

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve had a lot of dead animals wash up here, you know, otters and raccoons, things like that over the years, but never a dead whale. We’ve had dead people wash up, but never a whale.

Jim Mooers

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was like Captain Ahab pursuing the whale. [I had] a supreme confidence, a kind of sleepwalker’s assurance, as successful as the film was, I wouldn’t do that now. I had put people’s lives in danger.

William Friedkin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When (the male whale) died, Mystic said the other four were in good health well, three weeks later, one of them is probably dying. And if it’s something that happened in the last three weeks, well what the hell is that? And if it's something that she was already suffering from when she came from Marineland, then she wasn't healthy three weeks ago, so they just outright lied.

Naomi Rose

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We heard there was a beached killer whale so we went to go find it. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gave permission to keep the orca wet and protected from animals until they could arrive, we were working on getting a hose and pump to work. In the meantime, we used buckets to keep the orca wet. The orca started getting more lively after we put water on it.

Aroon Melane

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As we got closer I saw a fin and realized it was a whale, some lock keepers hosing Atmospheric Administration.Garside down and it looked like the tide was going up so Atmospheric Administration.Garside could turn around. I realized that the whale might be injured as it started rolling on its side and thrashing about.

Daniel Magee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was almost disbelief and shock to see a whale where you would normally only see ducks and swans, my next thoughts were I hope it's ok and manages to swim free.

David Korsaks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The location is Richmond Lock and and we saw a group of spectators, we saw a seal there earlier this year, which is unusual, so we thought it was him again, as we got closer I saw a fin and realized it was a whale. Some lock keepers hosing him down and it looked like the tide was going up so he could turn around. I realized that the whale might be injured as it started rolling on its side and thrashing about.

Daniel Magee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is this curious situation now where the Reddit crowd has turned its sights on a bigger whale in terms of trying to catalyse something of a short squeeze in the silver market, the most important factor here is that silver is heavily shorted, the paper market is much, much larger than the underlying commodity can justify.

Kyle Rodda

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

She contributed enormously to our understanding of whale sharks and their care. Loss is inevitable, but that does not make it any less painful.

Georgia Aquarium

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Each new right whale calf brings so much hope for this critically endangered species, and losses like this have a substantial impact on their recovery, their population has been experiencing a significant decline and high juvenile and adult mortality in recent years.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The whale was right here in my face, literally, i'm thinking to Liz Cottriel,' I'm gon na push. Like, I'm gon na push a whale out of the way ! It was the weirdest thought. I'm thinking,' I'm dead. I'm dead.' I thought it was gon na land on me. Next thing I know, I'm underwater.

Liz Cottriel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I saw the big pool of fish, the big bait ball come up out of the water. I saw the whale come up, i thought, Oh no! Its too close.

Julie McSorley

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Further supporting evidence of the absence of these large apex predators is the lack of any feeding or bite marks on whale carcasses the city has removed from False Bay this year, we do not know how their absence from False Bay would affect the ecosystem.

Cape Towns municipality

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

When I saw the big bulbous head, the tiny dorsal fin way back on its back and the dagger teeth, I knew exactly what it was. It also had an odd blowhole thats farther up than any other whale and slightly off-center.

Jim Serpa

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The two are not on the same page, it is like a dolphin versus a blue whale. But maybe even a dolphin is an exaggeration.

Attila Hevesi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

First we have to find a blue whale, which can be very difficult because these animals range across vast swaths of the open ocean. By combining many years of field experience and some luck, we position a small, rigid-hulled, inflatable boat on the whale's left side, we then have to deploy the tag using a six-meter (20-foot) long carbon-fiber pole. As the whale surfaces to breathe, we tag the whale in a location that we think is closest to the heart: just behind the whale's left flipper.

Jeremy Goldbogen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is incredibly sad - I was literally two feet from this dead whale, it was both poignant and a bit eerie really - road traffic was thundering overhead on the busiest motorway in Britain and oblivious to all the people in the cars and lorries there was a 10-metre long beautiful whale floating dead beneath them.

Martin Garside

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have done our best to preserve it and we will hand the whale over to the scientists to carry out a full investigation - an autopsy for want of a better word.

Martin Garside

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I honestly believe this president has not gotten his pound of flesh yet from past grievances on the 2016 investigation. ... If he continues to focus on that white whale, it's going to bring him down.

Tom Bossert

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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