How to Use blue whale in a Sentence

blue whale

noun
  • Gray whales are seen from winter to spring, and blue whales are seen summer to fall.
    — Vera Castaneda, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The call of a blue whale can be heard about 1,000 miles from its source.
    — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The heart of a blue whale beats as infrequently as twice a minute.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Today, finding so many blue whales so close to shore is unheard of.
    — Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • This audio clip has been sped up by 3x to highlight the sound of the blue whale.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 July 2022
  • The blue whale’s skull was showing and its dorsal fin was missing.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Not just an ordinary cetacean but a blue whale, the biggest of the species.
    — Tom Titus, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
  • Scientists already knew that a blue whale's pulse must slow down at depth.
    — Fox News, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Two wall-size displays project a lone blue whale swimming an endless loop.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Boaters got to see five blue whales feeding on shrimp-like crustaceans in the area, the group said.
    — Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • As the largest living mammals on Earth, blue whale moms have a big job to do.
    — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
  • The group even got the chance to witness a blue whale show off its tail, passengers said.
    — Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2025
  • That's about the same as four blue whales or 100 African elephants.
    — Ina Fried, Axios, 10 Jan. 2025
  • There are only a few sounds in the Antarctic blue whale repertoire.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The smallest dinosaurs were about the size of a pigeon, while the largest stretched longer than a blue whale.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
  • The scarred blue whale returned to the same bay for 15 years afterward.
    — Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • Its bigger cousin – the blue whale – can swallow half a million calories in one gulp.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2012
  • But blue whales have accordion-like skin that stretches and could pop the suction cup tag right off.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Nov. 2019
  • That means its longer than a Boeing 737 aircraft and a blue whale.
    — Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2021
  • And a blue whale weighs about 200 tons That’s a lot of cucumbers.
    — Kara Driscoll, ajc, 11 May 2018
  • Future designs include sculptures inspired by sea stars and the heart of a blue whale.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike the model, the original blue whale skull was featured in the new show.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The blue whale calibrates its migrations to find the krill that sustains it.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
  • May to October is the prime time to witness humpbacks, blue whales, and minke whales.
    — Chantelle Kincy, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • That’s according to scientists' first recordings of the heart of a blue whale.
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The blue whale is, at the moment, the largest animal, extant or extinct, known to have lived.
    — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Even though the cells of a blue whale and of a fruit fly are roughly the same size, the whale’s cell has a lower metabolic rate.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2018
  • The largest one ever recorded came in at a whopping 43 feet long—nearly half the size of a blue whale.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Although the airship is as long as two and a half blue whales, just three ground crew can help the pilot to land and secure the blimp.
    — Trinity Francis, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Gray whales migrate from late fall to early spring, and humpback and blue whales migrate from late spring to early fall.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2026

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