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Example sentences for "sperm whales"

  • The yacht changed course a little, and presently reached a pod of sperm whales at the surface.

  • Jud displayed great erudition on the subject and explained in detail how their spouting proved them to be sperm whales.

  • As if to exasperate the "old man" beyond measure on the third day of our operations a great school of sperm whales appeared, disporting all around the ship, apparently conscious of our helplessness to interfere with them.

  • Then came a hurricane of noise overhead, and adjurations in no gentle language to the sleepers to "tumble up lively there, no skulking, sperm whales.

  • The order Cetacea consists of three families, baleen whales, sperm whales, dolphins, and it's in this last group that narwhales are placed.

  • I believe in the existence of a mammal with a powerful constitution, belonging to the vertebrate branch like baleen whales, sperm whales, or dolphins, and armed with a tusk made of horn that has tremendous penetrating power.

  • So till I have proof to the contrary, I'll deny that baleen whales, sperm whales, or unicorns can do any such thing.

  • One day she saw spouts, lowered her boats, and gave chase to a shoal of sperm whales.

  • Under good wind conditions this feature alone may permit positive identification of sperm whales even at considerable distances.

  • Sperm whales have a distinct dorsal hump, usually rounded in its appearance about two-thirds of the way back from the tip of the snout.

  • Sperm whales may be found singly or in groups of up to 35 or 40 individuals.

  • Sperm whales engage in fearful and dreadful struggles and conflicts with each other.

  • The English whalemen have taken, in years past, a large number of sperm whales in the Red Sea.

  • In June and July, sperm whales may be found off the north-west cape of New Holland.

  • The previous chapter gave account of an immense body or herd of Sperm Whales, and there was also then given the probable cause inducing those vast aggregations.


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