How to Use narwhal in a Sentence

narwhal

noun
  • Drone footage of wild narwhals has revealed that the whales use their tusks to hunt fish.
    — Kacey Deamer, NBC News, 30 May 2017
  • All of this traffic has made the narwhal’s world a much louder one.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The most profitable quarry, these days, is the narwhal.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The one species, the narwhal, is an Arctic whale known for its huge nine-foot tusk.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Or perhaps a narwhal uses its tusk to flush out prey on the ocean bottom.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Both narwhal and belugas mate in the spring, as the sea ice is breaking up.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 20 June 2019
  • Every day for three weeks, Nweeia woke up hoping to see a narwhal.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The three whales all had pectoral fins shaped like belugas and tails shaped like narwhals.
    — Fox News, 21 June 2019
  • Garde wanted to know what the narwhals’ ancestors were like.
    — Maggie Koerth, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
  • That doesn’t mean climate change isn’t a risk to narwhals, however.
    — Maggie Koerth, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Despite their apparent noise, the drones dont seem to disturb the narwhals.
    — Dyllan Furness, Fox News, 17 May 2017
  • Musk oxen can be shot from snowmobiles, narwhals and minke whales from speedboats.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • It's filled with gigantic whale skulls, extinct dolphin bones, and eight-foot-long narwhal tusks.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The ocean is habitat for narwhal, beluga, and bowhead whales.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Like any whale, the narwhal needs to surface to breathe — on average, every four to six minutes.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
  • The misshapen right pectoral fin and scars on the mottled many-shades-of-gray skin of one narwhal looked familiar.
    — Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • In his way, of course, Nemo is a narwhal, a stature that Bandealy embraces with a real glee.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2018
  • 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
  • Avocados, llamas and narwhals are in, as are earth tones and neutral colors like white and gray.
    — Washington Post, 25 July 2019
  • The polynya attracts narwhals, whales, walruses, birds, and seals, which in turn attract polar bears.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The video shows narwhals using their tusks to jab and stun the fish, which could indicate how narwhals interact with their prey.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • One of the strangest tusks — the unicorn-horn found on male narwhals — is a massively enlarged left upper canine.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Wearing a blue narwhal costume for the plunge was Christen Ng of Naperville.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • So why did nature give the narwhal such an outrageously long, flexible tooth?
    — Meghan Willcoxon, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2022
  • If a hotter Arctic reduces that further, the narwhal could be in trouble.
    — Maggie Koerth, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
  • There are eight different Nano-mals ranging from kitties to unicorns to narwhals.
    — Taylor Grothe, Parents, 1 Mar. 2025
  • This finding suggests that narwhal hunting near the surface is not without challenges.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
  • An extended version of the ad also features a talking narwhal.
    — Rachel Strugatz, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Until now, how narwhals used their long tusks had been subject to much speculation by scientists.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 16 May 2017
  • Reindeer, beluga whales, narwhals, and polar bears were also on the program.
    — Alexandra Owens, Robb Report, 27 June 2024

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