How to Use beaked whale in a Sentence

beaked whale

noun

• There are 22 species that make up the diverse beaked whale family.
  — Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
• Scientists have recorded attacks on species such as beaked whales, gray whales, and even blue whales.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2024
• Dolphins in turn are a type of toothed whale, a group that includes porpoises, beaked whales and sperm whales.
  — Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
• Dolphins in turn are a type of toothed whale, a group that also includes porpoises, beaked whales and sperm whales.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
• What’s more, various beaked whale species are hard to identify, as the differences between them tend to be subtle.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2017
• Scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of beaked whale in the waters off the Japanese coast.
  — Fox News, 7 Sep. 2019
• The beaked whales were a particularly rare sighting, scientists said.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• But the world’s most elusive cetacean, the beaked whale, has been documented making similar marks elsewhere, for reasons unknown.
  — Todd Woody, National Geographic, 24 July 2019
• Not much is known about beaked whales because of their deep-sea habitat, reclusive behavior, and apparent scarcity, according to researchers.
  — Ashley Varese, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
• Many modern whales — such as the beluga, narwhal and beaked whale – have lost most of their functional teeth and primarily feed by sucking up single prey items such as fish and squid.
  — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2018
• This particular type of beaked whale had unusual teeth placement, researcher Jay Barlow told Reuters.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
• For example, the noises produced by deep-sea mining technologies could startle deep-diving beaked whales, causing the animals to rise to the surface much faster than is safe due to the pressure change.
  — Amber X. Chen, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2025