How to Use right whale in a Sentence

right whale

noun
  • How long can right whales live?
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This right whale species has weathered rough seas.
    — Lex Goldstein, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Watch for sharks and southern right whales from your suite’s deck.
    — Kitson Jazynka, National Geographic, 14 June 2019
  • There are only about 380 right whales left.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But there are still right whales from past years that remain entangled.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Cargo vessels are killing whale sharks and right whales and sea turtles.
    — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Two years ago, no calves were spotted among returning right whales.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Over the last 10 years, more right whales have died than have been born, per the report.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The North Atlantic right whale is among the rarest whale species in the world.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • There are only about 380 right whales left on the planet.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 14 June 2026
  • There are only a little more than 400 of the right whales left.
    — Washington Post, 3 July 2019
  • The new study looked at humpbacks, gray whales, and north atlantic and southern right whales.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 21 May 2025
  • By the end of the season, most of the right whales had begun migrating north.
    — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
  • The next day, another dead right whale was spotted in the same body of water.
    — Amanda Coletta, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The skeleton of another right whale lies below on the ocean floor.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Last year, 17 right whales died — and that’s just those that researchers know of, Mayo said.
    — Laney Ruckstuhl, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
  • What’s true for southern right whales could also be true for other whale species, Breed says.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 20 Dec. 2024
  • There are estimated to be 384 right whales left in the world.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • There are estimated to be about 380 right whales left in the world.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • There are estimated to be just 384 right whales left in the world.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The lone right whale calf swims underneath the Morehead City port pier.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Southern right whales no longer come to breed near the Valdés Peninsula.
    — Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Many scientists believe that climate change is partly to blame for the uptick in right whale deaths.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2020
  • North Atlantic right whales have been on the brink of extinction before.
    — Amanda Coletta, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2019
  • This area near the Nantucket Shoals wasn’t always such a right whale hot spot.
    — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Then a second survey last Thursday found more than 20 right whales.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The request is designed to help reduce ship strikes, which are one of the major causes of death for right whales.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • George writes in the winter of 2000, only one right whale calf was spotted.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Whaling ships pursued all types of whales for the next two centuries, including blue, sperm, and right whales.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The right whale population was closer to 450 just a few years ago.
    — Patrick Whittle, courant.com, 5 Sep. 2021

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