How to Use whaling in a Sentence

whaling

noun
  • Wood filled it with whaling decor as a testament to their love of the sea.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • To smooth the way, contentious points like logging and whaling are left by the wayside.
    — chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
  • But the end of whaling looked very different in the Bering Strait.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2021
  • The bookmark is blank except for the store's name and address and a portrait of a whaling ship.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • Last year, an intrusive tourist nearly came to blows with one of the whaling captains.
    — Erica Goode, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2016
  • Since then a worldwide ban on whaling has allowed the iconic mammals to rebound.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2019
  • With this much business, the practice of whaling was bound to have a cultural impact.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Only a small fraction of blue whales survived the era of commercial whaling.
    — Eric M. Keen, Scientific American, 31 July 2020
  • Once a whaling port, Nantucket has become a playground for the well-heeled.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Today, blue whales are still endangered and face a number of threats, though whaling is now broadly banned across the globe.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Ours had been a long and arduous expedition, scouring the ocean for whaling ships that did not want to be found.
    — Kieran Mulvaney, National Geographic, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Under its research whaling, Japan caught as many as 1,200 whales a year.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
  • Melville was as proud of his whaling adventures as Mark Twain was of steamboating.
    — The Week Us, theweek, 17 Sep. 2024
  • During the whaling season, everything else in Point Hope comes to a pause.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
  • Inside, the space looked like an old whaling town’s church by way of Axel Vervoordt.
    — New York Times, 29 May 2021
  • When the market bottomed out, Brower quit whaling but stayed in Barrow.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The edge of the Arctic pack ice straggled near Dutch whaling stations, and whales gathered along the edge of the ice.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • By the time whaling was banned in 1935, they were hunted nearly to extinction.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • In the boom years of the 1950s, there were seven whaling companies in Abashiri.
    — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • In the 1800s, Black seamen built cities through work in the whaling industry.
    — Nyeema C. Harris, Scientific American, 17 June 2022
  • Although whaling is long over in the area, humpbacks still have a reason to fear ships in Cumberland Bay.
    — Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • At Bahía del Águila are the remains of a 19th-century whaling station.
    — John Bartlett, NPR, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Clearing it from a 113-foot-long historic whaling ship docked in the river is something else entirely.
    — ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The trouble was the whaling stations that were their salvation were on the north side of the island, and in between them was a mountain that had never been climbed.
    — Tim Jarvis, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2019
  • In the eighteen-forties, at the height of open-boat whaling, some five thousand sperm whales were killed each year; in the nineteen-sixties, the number was six times as high.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • By the 1960s, the Soviet Union was the world’s largest whaling nation.
    — Ryan Jones, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The island was once home to seven industrial whaling stations, now abandoned with seals and penguins living where whales were once cut up for meat and fat.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The story is narrated by the character Ishmael, who joins the crew aboard the Pequod whaling ship.
    — Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2017
  • The whales were once abundant off the East Coast, but they were decimated during the era of commercial whaling.
    — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • This included 500 years of Black mariners in fishing, sailing, surfing and whaling.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2026

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