How to Use blowhole in a Sentence

blowhole

noun
  • Baleen whales have two openings in their blowhole, while toothed whales have one.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • One even pulled me around a lagoon like a Jet Ski with a blowhole.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • Then, take a dip in the cobalt waters or get sprayed by the blowhole on the paved path from the overlook.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Whales breathe through their blowholes, which are the equivalent of nostrils on their heads.
    — Juana Summers, NPR, 26 Dec. 2025
  • On the other side of our boat, another whale exhaled a huge plume of spray from its blowhole.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2023
  • During dives, the blowhole is sealed by a nasal plug that opens when the animal surfaces.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • With no sense of fear, the whale exhaled from its blowholes, threw its fluke up and continued to dive for more food.
    — Coastmag, Orange County Register, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Satellites can spot the hot breath geysering out of a single whale’s blowhole.
    — The Atlantic Science Desk, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2025
  • What made this encounter unique, though, is that as the whale blew water from its blowhole, a rainbow appeared.
    — Madison Alcedo, Country Living, 17 Mar. 2017
  • The whales also breathe through their blowholes, which are separate from their mouths, and very rarely blocked by debris.
    — Sarah Keartes, National Geographic, 30 July 2019
  • The parts aren’t exactly alike, but both animals have a dorsal fin and a blowhole.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Dip into the cobalt waters, jump from the volcanic cliffs, or get sprayed by the blowhole on the paved path from the overlook.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Someone had hacked off its flukes, and another person, or perhaps the same one, had stuck a cigar butt in its blowhole.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • Every so often, a spray of water exploded from its blowhole.
    — Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
  • These Jurassic animals most likely breathed through their noses rather than blowholes.
    — Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
  • One is a guy who can make his hand vibrate incredibly fast, and the other is a girl with a dolphin blowhole on her back.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the people who interacted with Tião grabbed his fins, hit him, and tried to put ice cream sticks in his blowhole.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020
  • In other words, a lot of climatic factors must conspire for this chilly blowhole-like structure to arise.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
  • In the video, around a half dozen of the animals can be seen breaching just feet from the boat and loudly spouting mist from their blowholes.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
  • Ascend their tails to get to the blowhole on their heads, then get launched a great distance upwards to escape a tricky situation.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The whale has several lines wrapping his head and mouth, including one cutting into his blowhole.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The blowhole is the first body part to rise out of the water, followed by the back and tail as the whale dives below the surface in one graceful motion.
    — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Blocking the whale’s blowhole was Kramer’s infamous golf ball—a Titleist.
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2013
  • As Equinac points out in their post, dolphins, unlike fish, breath oxygen in the air through their blowhole, not oxygen in water with gills.
    — Robert Newhouse, Teen Vogue, 17 Aug. 2017
  • I'mPhaedra Trethan, chuckling over a discussion among colleagues about what to call the goo that comes out of whales' blowholes.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The solution, of course, is to fly a snot-collecting drone — called the Snotbot — over an erupting blowhole.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2015
  • After that, the orcas jumped onto the whale's blowhole to exhaust the animal and prevent it from breathing.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Squids do not have blowholes but do have siphons, which look similar and are involved in the animal's respiration process.
    — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And just a few weeks ago in Australia, an octopus clung to a dolphin’s back, dangerously close to its blowhole.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
  • That is, until we are surrounded by three pairs of mothers and their calves—six in total—revealing themselves to us one fin and blowhole at a time.
    — Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2026

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