How to Use minke whale in a Sentence

minke whale

noun
  • This was the first time anybody had ever put a tag on a minke whale.
    — Rebecca Kessler, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2014
  • The minke whale is the smallest baleen whale in Alaska waters.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
  • Experts say another minke whale has been found dead in state waters.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Within minutes, a minke whale’s sleek back rose just above the surface of the water.
    — Jennifer Billock, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Of the whale deaths, 21 were gray whales, two were unidentified baleen whales, and one was a minke whale.
    — Sara Chernikoff, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Throughout the day, groups got the chance to see common dolphins, a minke whale, and sea lions, the group said.
    — Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • So why did a fleet from one of the countries that signed on to the agreement just kill over 300 minke whales?
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
  • This includes pods of Gray, humpback, and minke whales as well as porpoises.
    — Jd Shadel, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Whale-watching income far outweighs the income from hunting fin and minke whales.
    — Joe Roman, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Scientists are hoping to try the tag on other whales, such as humpbacks, minke whales and fin whales.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
  • May to October is the prime time to witness humpbacks, blue whales, and minke whales.
    — Chantelle Kincy, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Musk oxen can be shot from snowmobiles, narwhals and minke whales from speedboats.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The calls of minke whales, on the other hand, increased only marginally in the presence of loud noise.
    — Katherine Kornei, Science | AAAS, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Modern baleen whales include many of the world’s largest cetaceans, such as blue, fin, humpback, right, bowhead, and minke whales.
    — National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Others who pass through include minke whales, pilot whales, sperm whales, orcas, and the species of dolphin known as the false killer whale.
    — Alanna Bennett, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In a normal year, Girardeau would be pointing out dolphins, along with fin and minke whales, to tourists in search of sea life.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Other filter-feeding baleen whales like blue, fin and minke whales produce much simpler songs that are more or less the same every year.
    — Will Dunham, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Pods of porpoises frolic, and a playful minke whale shimmers in the afternoon sun.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The country has annual quotas for the fin whales and minke whales fishermen are allowed to hunt in its waters.
    — Sylvia Hui, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2024
  • Over Labor Day weekend, another dead minke whale washed up in Duxbury.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Last weekend, a minke whale was found dead in Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Iceland, too, hunts minke whales for profit—even though Icelanders are eating less whale meat than ever before.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The conventional thinking has been that minke whales mainly chase krill, Eisert said.
    — Nick Perry, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Despite the global outcry against Japan’s whale hunt, minke whales are not threatened with extinction.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Moments later, a minke whale passed a mere few feet in front of us, lifting its head and fins above the water in yet another close encounter.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
  • London residents were transfixed when a juvenile minke whale swam up the Thames last week and was injured on a lock.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 16 May 2021
  • The two minke whales that were harpooned are the first to be killed by Japan for commercial purposes in more than 30 years.
    — Ivan Watson and Michelle Lou, CNN, 2 July 2019
  • The latest whale death also comes about two weeks after a rare minke whale was discovered in the bay and later euthanized, officials said.
    — Terry Collins, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • But considering these crafty medieval Norwegians were hunting minke whales, no wonder.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
  • For the first time in over 30 years, two minke whales were harpooned by Japanese whaling boats and brought back to port for commercial purposes.
    — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 3 July 2019

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