How to Use whaler in a Sentence

whaler

noun
  • Four whalers are set adrift after a violent storm sinks their ship.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Right before the hunt, the whalers sang a song asking the whale to give itself.
    — Krista Langlois, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Mark pins a 14 or so foot tiger shark alongside the team's 17 foot whaler.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2013
  • The whalers would then get out on the water as quickly as possible to hunt.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Individual whalers had their own songs to call the whales to them.
    — Krista Langlois, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Bronze whaler sharks have emerged as new mid-ranking predators in the area, said Towner.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • Whalers from around the world flocked to this island as a place to berth their vessels between hunts in the southern seas.
    — Kraig Becker, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2017
  • New species like bronze whalers and sevengill sharks have moved into False Bay.
    — David Shiffman, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Then whalers with similar roles were called to dance — like all captains and all harpooners.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
  • Men traveled the seas as whalers and sailors, bringing back knowledge from across continents.
    — Reginald David, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Thom Browne’s models have been football players and figure skaters, sailors and whalers.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 6 July 2017
  • That's when white explorers, fur traders, whalers, gold miners and immigrants reached the state.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2018
  • One-quarter of all adult females killed by whalers prove to be postmenopausal, as judged by the condition of their ovaries.
    — Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Our big outing is to sail our Boston whaler, anchor at a beach and get sandwiches.
    — Catherine Bigelow, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2018
  • From whalers and pirates to the intrepid explorers who made their home here, the islands have stories to tell.
    — Josh Rivera, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024
  • For whalers and pirates, the slow-moving animals were like walking grocery stores.
    — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2012
  • Payakan fought back against the whalers who killed his mother and was shunned by whale and Metkayina society alike.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The novel was inspired by both his experience as a whaler and the Essex tragedy.
    — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
  • What was once a sleepy island of whalers and fisherman is now the Hamptons of Germany.
    — Garrett Munce, Town & Country, 4 May 2023
  • Two centuries ago, researchers wanting to visit the region had to tag along with explorers, whalers, or seal hunters.
    — Eli Kintisch, Science | AAAS, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The whaler was probably built and put to sea only roughly less than nine months after the trees were felled — a short amount of time in that period.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • One keeper, Ted Pedersen, was the son of a whaler active in the Arctic.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The whaling season is a busy time for women on the crew, who traditionally support the whalers from the village.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2023
  • In late July, a whaler reported seeing the ships in Baffin Bay.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
  • One of my great-great-grandfathers was a whaler who came to New Bedford from the West Indies.
    — Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 1 May 2020
  • The scientist cut a slice out of the bone to count the layers, then filled a hollow in the bone with plastic and returned it to the whaler with a write-up about his whale’s age.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • There was no indigenous population, but Dutch whalers were soon fishing in the region, and trappers came to hunt on land as well.
    — Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 26 May 2018
  • So all this would not have been possible without the generosity of Alaskan Inuit whalers.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 24 Nov. 2025
  • As of 2019, Port and Starboard have moved on to preying on another shark species, the bronze whaler.
    — National Geographic, 16 July 2019
  • The great white sharks could return at any time, and other large sharks, like bronze whaler sharks (Carcharhinus brachyurus), frequent the waters, too.
    — Linda Nordling, Science | AAAS, 30 Aug. 2019

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