How to Use orca in a Sentence

orca

noun

• And here comes two orcas under the boat in our study area.
  — Michael H Gavshon, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
• Keep an eye out for orca whales from the outdoor deck.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2026
• Still, her encounter with the orcas stayed with her.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 1 June 2026
• Watch for humpbacks and orcas, black and brown bears — and more.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• How should people react if an orca tries to share food with them?
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
• The region is home to pods of orcas and gray whales and humpbacks.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
• An orca leapt out of the water in the distance, but no one looked up.
  — Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
• Giles turned the boat around and pointed us back toward the orcas.
  — Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
• The team found that orcas spend most of their time taking shallow dives.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 May 2024
• Watch above as the playful orca breaches not once, but four times.
  — Katina Beniaris, Country Living, 4 Aug. 2017
• Part of its fluke has torn away, and there are orca teeth marks along its flanks and under its jaw.
  — Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 25 Feb. 2022
• And orcas have been seen wearing dead salmon on their heads, almost like hats.
  — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 19 May 2025
• That’s not the case for orcas, which are massive and free-swimming.
  — Gene Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
• The job of the orca whales here is to herd the herring into a ball—no easy trick.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
• An orca whale mother has kept her dead calf by her side for at least 11 days.
  — Bailey Richards, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
• The orcas were spread out throughout the hours-long feed, which is normal, the post said.
  — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2025
• The orca is one of only a handful of mammals known to go through menopause.
  — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2019
• Not that Aegicetus was much like a modern orca or sperm whale.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
• Scientists have observed a lone orca killing a great white shark for the first time.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
• Tsuchiya says the orcas appeared to be struggling to breathe and are unable to swim free.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2024
• At one point, a pod of orca whales surrounded the vessel and breached again and again.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2022
• This isn’t the first time orcas and other marine species have struggled due to drift ice.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
• When one of her cubs is attacked by a pod of orca whales, the details are vivid and haunting.
  — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
• Giles shouted as an orca’s fluke rose up and smacked the water’s surface.
  — Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
• At the bottom of the tube sat a half-inch of what looked like frozen mud, but was, in fact, orca ordure.
  — Kate Brooks, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
• Great white sharks were seen as apex predators, so many people struggled to see them as prey for orcas.
  — Michael H Gavshon, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
• The solitary bull orca was first spotted 17 years ago.
  — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
• The 26-foot-long orca is now the largest skeleton of its kind on display in the world.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 5 Oct. 2017
• The orcas are due to be shipped to another marine park in Japan.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 May 2024
• Like the orcas, the kings are today at the mercy of years of human choices.
  — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023