How to Use sei whale in a Sentence

sei whale

noun
  • The sei whale, however, is currently on the endangered species list.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 July 2019
  • Most whale populations have not yet been recovered, including larger whales such as blue whales, fin whales and sei whales.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 9 June 2019
  • By the 1920s, humpbacks were scarce, so the industry began targeting blue whales and then fin and sei whales.
    — Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • As members of the baleen family of whales, sei whales feast on plankton and consume an average of 2,000 pounds of food per day.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Humpback and sei whales are relatively similar in size, for instance — both usually measuring longer than a school bus.
    — Karen Weintraub, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Yet for all scientists have learned about these charismatic leviathans, no one knows how baleen whales (a group that includes humpback, blue, fin and sei whales, among others) find their food in the first place.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • By the mid-Sixties, however, fin and sei whales were slim pickings in the Antarctic, and the industry inevitably shuttered.
    — Lucy Jakub, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Other animals and wildlife to keep an eye out for while on the water include sea otters, Stellar sea lions, orcas, and fin, gray, humpback, minke and sei whales.
    — Susan B. Barnes, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2018
  • In a study published last week in the journal Nature, scientists studied three larynxes from humpback, minke and sei whales that had died after becoming stranded.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The sei whale, a somewhat mysterious type of whale that prefer to live in temperate waters in the mid-latitudes, was not yet mature, marine mammal biologists say.
    — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2020
  • These days, sei whales are threatened by propeller strikes from seagoing vessels, entanglement in fishing gear, underwater noise from human activity and changing environmental conditions.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The mother factory ship Nisshin-maru and two support boats that used to go to the Antarctic will travel as far as Japan's 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone to catch minke, Bryde's and sei whales.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2019
  • Blue, bowhead, fin and sei whale populations are also growing globally, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
    — Eric Bender, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The monument, encompassing 4,913 square miles off the coast of New England, protects ecological resources and species including deep-sea corals; sperm, fin, and sei whales; Kemp's ridley sea turtles; and deep-sea fish.
    — Evan Halper, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The creature was identified by the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society (AMSEAS) as a sei whale, the third-largest whale species on Earth.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2026

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