How to Use Chinook in a Sentence

Chinook

noun

• Kalluk had wooed Chinook over the years, but their match did not produce any cubs.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
• There was no open fire, no Chinook roasting on wooden skewers.
  — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• The Biggest Salmon Chinook (or king) salmon are the largest of the world’s salmonids.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
• With its twin rotors, the Chinook is still the fastest helicopter in the Army.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 14 June 2025
• The average weight for a Chinook ranges from 10 to 25 pounds.
  — Axios Portland, Axios, 23 Sep. 2024
• Other Chinook have fared so badly in recent years that the state’s salmon fishery has had to close for the last two years.
  — Heather Knight, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
• The whales have been struggling amid a scarcity of high-quality prey to eat, mainly Chinook salmon.
  — Adeel Hassan, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
• The whales rely on fish — preferably Chinook salmon — and live in three pods called J, K and L. The southern residents have been in the spotlight of conservation efforts for decades.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
• In the Rocky Mountains, Chinook winds bring rapid warming and dry air, often melting snow.
  — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
• The spring salmon run brings over a million Chinook, sockeye, and coho, but there’s plenty of year-round catches like walleye.
  — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2025
• Studies have shown the retardant can harm plants, fish and other species, including steelhead trout and Chinook salmon.
  — oregonlive, 5 July 2023
• In the fall, head to the Bonneville Fish Hatchery to see spawning coho and Chinook.
  — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2025
• Regardless of the lawsuit’s outcome, though, there is broad agreement that the king salmon, also known as Chinook, are in crisis.
  — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Fish including the delta smelt, Chinook salmon and giant sturgeon are threatened with extinction.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
• These orcas primarily feed on Chinook salmon, which are large, nutrient-rich fish and form a crucial part of their diet.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
• The final dam, JC Boyle, is expected to come down this fall, just in time for Chinook salmon season.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
• One of the Forest Service pilots offered to show the children around a Chinook awaiting its next flight, too.
  — Peter Passi, Twin Cities, 17 May 2025
• Nutty, with hints of caramel, it is lifted by a trio of old-school hops – Cascade, Centennial and Chinook.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
• For the first time in 112 years, Chinook salmon are swimming freely in the Klamath Basin in Oregon.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
• The siblings moved in with Chinook, who’d landed at San Diego Zoo as an orphaned cub in 1996.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
• Take the Sacramento, which historically would get 1 million or more fall Chinook in a good year, but now sees runs in the tens of thousands.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025
• Some experts fear the conditions in California have been so poor for so long that Chinook may never rebound to fishable levels.
  — Alastair Bland | Calmatters, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
• The Oregon incident comes on the heels of a mass Chinook salmon smolt die-off in Northern California.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• The advisory said the smoke was caused by the Flat fire, which is burning roughly 3 miles west of Lake Billy Chinook.
  — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
• This year is expected to be one of the smallest runs of fall Chinook since the Yurok tribe began keeping track, McCovey said.
  — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• Spring-run are threatened, and winter-run Chinook are endangered under the Endangered Species Act along with steelhead trout.
  — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 23 May 2024
• The schedule for removing the three dams calls for finishing in August or September, which will allow for Chinook salmon to migrate upstream past the sites.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
• The reservoir is stocked with kokanee and fall Chinook, rainbow and bull trout, yellow perch and mountain whitefish, according to Idaho Fish and Game.
  — Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 15 Apr. 2025
• As chum and Chinook salmon returns in the rivers have dwindled and harvests have closed, residents have blamed Area M interception for contributing to those problems.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
• Spring-run Chinook were listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act in 1999.
  — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025