whalers in English
On the morning of 11 February 1944, off the Norwegian coast, Stubborn sighted a convoy of seven ships escorted by four trawlers, a whaler and an aircraft.
Use "whalers" in a sentence
1. We're whalers on the moon We carry a harpoon
2. 25 Norwegian whalers said yesterday they had harpooned a female minke whale.
3. Sir, the whalers are all aboard and that's the last detachment of marines.
4. Japanese whalers have hunted striped dolphins in the western Pacific since at least the 1940s.
5. From the 18th century onward, whalers hunted these whales extensively in the Southern Hemisphere.
6. Whalers and trading ships from the United States also arrived on Japan's shores.
7. The name was probably given by whalers operating in the area prior to 1921-22.
8. It was salvaged by American whalers, and then Congress sent it back to England.
9. They're physically putting their bodies on the line between the whalers' harpoons and the whales.
10. Even if the Whalers trade Coffey, it should be a serious postseason aspirant and could do some damage.
11. Brave whalers were pitted against the mysterious powers of the deep, as represented by the huge whale.
12. Along with whalers came the fur-seal hunters, who brought the population of this animal close to extinction.
13. It was essential to the diets of the whalers on Kerguelen when pork, beef, or seal meat was used up.
14. Diseases introduced from the 1820s by European sealers and whalers also caused a rapid decline in Aboriginal numbers.
15. The Bowhead whale, formerly known by Yankee whalers as the Greenland right whale, is a taxonomic relative of the right whale
16. But whalers haven’t even been spotting Bowheads near Utqiaġvik, said Brower, a former president of the Barrow Whaling Captains Association
17. For over a century, they were hunted almost to extinction by whalers until protected by the international community in 1966.
18. Alaska whalers take Bowheads from protected stocks that number about 10,000 animals and range in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
19. The breed is believed to have descended from an Asian domestic breed introduced to New Zealand in the early 19th century by whalers or traders.
20. The Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) got its name from its high, arched jaw that resembles a bow.They are a cold-water whale that lives in the Arctic.Bowheads are still hunted by native whalers in the Arctic through special permission for aboriginal subsistence whaling.
21. A popular legend is that the first Europeans to discover Warrnambool were Cristóvão de Mendonça and his crew who surveyed the coastline nearby and were marooned near the site of the present town as early as the 16th century, based on the unverified reports of local whalers' discovery of the wreck of a mahogany ship.