How to Use beluga in a Sentence

beluga

noun
  • Large numbers of cod in turn attract beluga whale and seabirds that prey on cod.
    — Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2017
  • These two villages are where most of the beluga harvest takes place.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2021
  • In the fall, hunters harvest seal and beluga whale, and women pick berries.
    — Loren Holmes, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2017
  • The beluga whales are also floating around and the otters take their dives as well.
    — Corey Mueller, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
  • The beluga was first spotted last week swimming up the Seine.
    — Elizabeth Kuhr, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Female beluga whales travel in a separate pod to raise and care for the young.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2022
  • And the fact that the hybrid had a narwhal mother and beluga father makes sense.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 20 June 2019
  • Her calf was the first beluga calf at the lakefront aquarium in seven years.
    — chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
  • The ocean is habitat for narwhal, beluga, and bowhead whales.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In Russia, many of the beluga whales performing in shows have been wild-caught.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2019
  • What did the beluga say to his girlfriend on Valentine's Day?
    — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 19 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • What if the animal needing treatment is larger—say, the size of a beluga whale?
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
  • When beluga were spotted in the distance one morning, a caravan of hunters rushed toward them and set to work.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Another goal of the beluga cameras is to monitor each whale's health.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2022
  • In a haunting coda, the last sound heard was the cry of a beluga, trapped beneath ice, getting softer and softer.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
  • On June 2, the society received a tip the beluga was in the river.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 14 June 2017
  • There are only 328 Cook Inlet beluga whales left in the wild.
    — USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The surrounding waters are home to harbor seals, sea lions, sea otters, and orcas, as well as beluga and gray whales.
    — Kathryn Sarkis, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2021
  • That means defining how and when to see the lights themselves, and how our aurora season overlaps with the polar bears and belugas.
    — Cody Chomiak, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The plan calls for the beluga whales to be shipped to the United States from Marineland in Canada.
    — Rob Hotakainen, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Tyonek also had a hearing test, the first ever done on a Cook Inlet beluga.
    — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Jan. 2018
  • As the Sounder reported last year, Buckland used to rely on a strong beluga hunt every year.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
  • The Georgia Aquarium has announced that one of its beluga whales is a mother-to-be.
    — USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Every year, around this time, around two-thirds of the world’s beluga whales migrate to southern Canadian waters.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 July 2022
  • In the spring of 1940, a beluga was spotted off the coast of Washington State.
    — Jason G. Goldman, National Geographic, 10 July 2020
  • In addition, Shedd visitors can touch the skin of a beluga whale and stingray and assist a trainer for the day and feed animals.
    — Leonor Vivanco, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2017
  • Frozen vodka at Siberia Bar is also good, particularly if a cook from one of the big hotels shows up with beluga.
    — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 9 June 2018
  • The Bruins have fed beluga whales at SeaWorld and toured a naval aircraft carrier.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Walruses, along with beluga whales, typically can be seen in the Wild Arctic habitat of the theme park.
    — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 June 2017

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