[ UK /wˈe‍ɪl/ ]
[ US /ˈhweɪɫ, ˈweɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
  2. any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
VERB
  1. hunt for whales
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How To Use whale In A Sentence

  • We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
  • Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
  • In 100 days we saw two pods of dolphins, a pod of blue whales and a few marine birds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind
  • God makes fowl and whales and every living creature.
  • The whale calf is thought to have become separated from its mother in the lower Thames, where the sighting of another, larger bottlenose whale was reported.
  • After being freed Tuesday, the whale swam toward the ocean.
  • Killer whales - known as the wolves of the sea - are top Arctic predators, eating prey that includes fatty animals like walruses, seals, sea lions, and even other whales.
  • The large lagoon and break in the reef attract many species, including dugongs, whale sharks, dolphins and manta rays.
  • He could sink that harpoon 3 feet into a whale and once fast it was not long before he was on the whale's back driving the lance 6 feet into its vitals.
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