NOUN
- large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
How To Use humpback whale In A Sentence
- Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
- The humpback whale creates the most complex, long-lasting, repetitive sound patterns of any non-human animal on our planet.
- We also witnessed humpback whales blowing and diving, breaching and slapping their fins and flukes.
- The theme, obviously, is marine animals, and the inclusions range from humpback whales to tuna fish, from great white sharks to bottlenose dolphins, and from mermaids to walruses.
- Humpback whales have even been seen to weave a snare of air-bubbles - a bubble net.
- Beneath the Cape's rugged cliff faces, washed by blue, mauve and aquamarine seas, migrating humpback whales can be heard breathing at sunrise.
- Three humpback whales breach in the distance, and closer a large green sea turtle floats blissfully in the waves.
- While we slowly drifted, the sea first reflected patches of pinkish purple then took on a golden hue, and the calm waters rippled from diving ducks and a lone humpback whale.
- For a musician it would be difficult, if not impossible, to define the sounds of the humpback whale without using musical terms.
- So animals like wolves, grizzly bears, bald eagles, millions of wild salmon, humpback whales, steller sea lions thrive here again as they have for, for thousands of years.
