How to Use Chinook in a Sentence

Chinook

noun
  • There was no open fire, no Chinook roasting on wooden skewers.
    — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 2023-12-14
  • The Biggest Salmon Chinook (or king) salmon are the largest of the world’s salmonids.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 2025-02-20
  • The average weight for a Chinook ranges from 10 to 25 pounds.
    — Axios Portland, Axios, 2024-09-23
  • Other Chinook have fared so badly in recent years that the state’s salmon fishery has had to close for the last two years.
    — Heather Knight, New York Times, 2025-01-24
  • How to catch them: Chinook salmon are an awesome, majestic and powerful fish.
    — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 2024-01-31
  • In the Rocky Mountains, Chinook winds bring rapid warming and dry air, often melting snow.
    — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 2025-01-07
  • Studies have shown the retardant can harm plants, fish and other species, including steelhead trout and Chinook salmon.
    — oregonlive, 2023-07-05
  • In the fall, head to the Bonneville Fish Hatchery to see spawning coho and Chinook.
    — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 2025-05-31
  • Fish including the delta smelt, Chinook salmon and giant sturgeon are threatened with extinction.
    — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 2025-01-30
  • Last year, populations of fall-run Chinook salmon were so low that regulators shut down the fishing season along the coast.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 2024-02-22
  • These orcas primarily feed on Chinook salmon, which are large, nutrient-rich fish and form a crucial part of their diet.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 2024-12-25
  • The final dam, JC Boyle, is expected to come down this fall, just in time for Chinook salmon season.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 2024-05-12
  • The final dam, JC Boyle, is expected to come down this fall, just in time for Chinook salmon season.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 2024-05-02
  • One of the Forest Service pilots offered to show the children around a Chinook awaiting its next flight, too.
    — Peter Passi, Twin Cities, 2025-05-17
  • For the first time in 112 years, Chinook salmon are swimming freely in the Klamath Basin in Oregon.
    — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-10-24
  • The siblings moved in with Chinook, who’d landed at San Diego Zoo as an orphaned cub in 1996.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • That might mean options like sesame crusted Oregon albacore, wild Chinook crudo or a garden tomato gazpacho.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 2024-09-04
  • Some experts fear the conditions in California have been so poor for so long that Chinook may never rebound to fishable levels.
    — Alastair Bland | Calmatters, Mercury News, 2025-04-16
  • The advisory said the smoke was caused by the Flat fire, which is burning roughly 3 miles west of Lake Billy Chinook.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Monitoring equipment documented other healthy yearling coho and Chinook salmon that came from downstream of the dam.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 2024-03-04
  • Spring-run are threatened, and winter-run Chinook are endangered under the Endangered Species Act along with steelhead trout.
    — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 2024-05-23
  • As chum and Chinook salmon returns in the rivers have dwindled and harvests have closed, residents have blamed Area M interception for contributing to those problems.
    — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-08-11
  • California wildlife officials report large die-off of salmon fry The first release of Chinook salmon fry in northern California didn’t go according to plan.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 2024-03-05
  • The first Chinook salmon was seen moving up past where the Iron Gate dam had stood within a few weeks of that dam coming down, after a century of anadromous fish unable to migrate past that point up to the headwaters.
    — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 2025-05-30
  • The parade will reportedly include a variety of military aircraft, such as Chinook, Apache, and Black Hawk helicopters, as well as bombers used over the years.
    — Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 2025-06-11
  • The state’s water plan is designed in part to save endangered fish species including Chinook salmon and Delta smelt from extinction in the environmentally sensitive ecosystem.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 2025-01-08
  • The most successful floating collector in Kock’s study captured roughly 60% of Chinook salmon, on a reservoir with far more favorable conditions than on those the Corps owns.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 2023-10-31
  • Some areas, including near the Lake Billy Chinook reservoir, were upgraded to level 3, or go now evacuation status, the highest evacuation level in the state.
    — Alana Wise, NPR, 23 Aug. 2025
  • At least 4,000 homes were threatened by the blaze, officials said, adding that fire crews from the Oregon State Fire Marshal are working to protect homes between Sisters and Lake Billy Chinook.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • In July 2025, the company’s subsidiary, BW LPG India secured a $215 million loan facility to refinance its existing debt and to fund the acquisition of two modern VLGCs, BW Chinook and BW Pampero, from BW LPG.
    — Ankita Dhawan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025

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