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How to use the word whale in a Sentence? Page #3

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I shall miss it enormously. I've had an absolute whale of a time, i shall miss the theater.

– Nigel Farage

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Nobody wants to accidentally tangle up a whale, we want to catch crab not anything else.

– Hugh Link

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

If no one can do anything the odds are good that that whale is going to die.

– Dave Anderson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I loved that it's a sea adventure and that it deals with a mythic figure ... the whale that actually inspired Melville to write 'Moby Dick' was every bit as intense as 'Moby Dick' and that real event was something that I wanted to share with audiences.

– Academy Award winner Ron Howard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The solution is that we have to agree to disagree, however, this does not mean that we will take all whales - exactly because we'd like to have sustainable whaling, we'd like to have a healthy whale population.

– Joji Morishita

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There were lots of gulls on the water and I thought initially it was a dead whale and the birds were feeding off it.

– Joseph Thomas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My first thoughts were, it might be a whale or something dead floating on the surface, because there were seabirds feeding off it, it turned out they were feeding off goose barnacles.

– Joseph Thomas

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Ideally Alistair Dove want to target invading microorganisms and avoid self targets, we’re going to see how the whale sharks may have solved that problem.

– Tim Read

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This is good news for whale conservation worldwide.

– Tyler Sniff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We believe this is the same whale that was entangled off Palos Verdes, the description fits.

– Jim Milbury

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We believe that whale snot or exhaled breath condensate is going to be the golden egg of data from a whale. The idea here is that we can go and collect physical data - DNA, viruses, bacteria, pregnancy hormones, stress hormones, without the whale knowing.

– Iain Kerr

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This will give us a new understanding of the relationship between whale body condition and health in the context of habitat quality.

– Michael Moore

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our whale sharks contribute tremendously to Oslob's income, helping to create much needed infrastructure, jobs, and opportunities for growth with neighboring municipalities.

– Elizabeth Beneloga

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The whale sharks in Oslob have been in our waters since time immemorial, the fishermen feed the whale sharks only to attract them to the water's surface -- it's a small amount of krill, and the feeding stops in the afternoon.

– Elizabeth Beneloga

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is really perplexing for a number of reasons, they appear to have all died around the same time. And the strange thing is they are all one species, with the exception of one dead humpback whale found in a different location.

– Kate Wynne

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s a different relationship than just going to the grocery store. The whale feeds the entire community.

– Allison Warden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don’t know what our culture would be without whaling. It’s at the center of everything we do, it’s a different relationship than just going to the grocery store. The whale feeds the entire community.

– Allison Warden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't know what our culture would be without whaling. It's at the center of everything we do, it's a different relationship than just going to the grocery store. The whale feeds the entire community.

– Allison Warden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a different relationship than just going to the grocery store. The whale feeds the entire community.

– Allison Warden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's exciting to know more about the evolution of this enigmatic group, an entire description of a new fossil pygmy sperm whale — that's really valuable.

– Nicholas Pyenson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When you're looking at the site from a little ways away, it looks like a bowhead [whale] coming to the surface.

– Owen Mason

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

With the whale, everything started.

– Henry Wichura

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We came to the idea that it used a large river system, because the whale had been found in lake sediments which are [mixed with] river sediments, so we can say that it died in a kind of river-lake environment.

– Henry Wichura

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I started out wanting to sail and then I saw there was a sailboat that took you whale watching, that was awesome. And then there was a guarantee of seeing the whales. It was traditional and we wanted to see people sailing. That's what we got.

– Tracy Chavous

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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