How to Use porpoise in a Sentence

porpoise

1 of 2 noun

• More than 90 species of whales, dolphins and porpoises make sounds.
  — Patrick Whittle, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
• The magic vessel could be a yacht or a galley, a porpoise or a mermaid.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
• More than 90 species of whales, dolphins and porpoises make sounds.
  — ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
• At the bridge, watch for basking sharks, porpoises, and dolphins.
  — Jamie Moore, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
• 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
• But that may not yet spell doom for the vaquita porpoise, according to new research.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 May 2022
• This includes pods of Gray, humpback, and minke whales as well as porpoises.
  — Jd Shadel, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2023
• Farther offshore, porpoises feed in tidal change zones.
  — Steven Rosenfeld, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
• The challenge is amplified by the fact that there are so few of the diminutive porpoises left.
  — CBS News, 30 June 2018
• Both confirmed that what Austin thought was a porpoise was actually a great white shark.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 3 Aug. 2023
• The porpoise washed up on the shore near Harbor Point housing complex.
  — Laney Ruckstuhl, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• The porpoise remains have been removed from the site, and will be examined by a marine expert.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 21 Sep. 2017
• Transient killer whales eat seals, sea lions, porpoise and other marine mammals.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2021
• Although fishing boats might not target the porpoises, they are often tangled in the nets or struck by boats.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2023
• Monks would have been able to easily catch the porpoise after tide waters receded.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 21 Sep. 2017
• Pods of porpoises frolic, and a playful minke whale shimmers in the afternoon sun.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2024
• Our days were spent beach combing on semi-secret islands with up-close views of whales, porpoises, and eagles.
  — Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
• Lake sturgeon, which also make a spring spawning migration up the Wolf, porpoise near the raft.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2018
• Any whale, dolphin, porpoise, or pinniped can spread potential diseases to humans and pets.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2023
• Kenai is also a wildlife-lover’s paradise, home to orcas and humpbacks, puffins, porpoises, and much more.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• His contemporaries named the Dall’s porpoise and Dall sheep after him.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
• Expect harbor porpoises and lazy sea lions.
  — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• Hernández and Day played kamikaze dolphins who work for the government, giving them a sense of porpoise (their joke, not mine).
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
• Other species found on shorelines included clams, ballan wrasse and ling, bryozoans and a harbour porpoise.
  — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2018
• The growing list includes foxes, raccoons, skunks, bears and even marine mammals like seals and porpoises.
  — Mike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 18 Feb. 2023
• And, of course, put aside some time to get out on the ocean to see some of the 27 species of whales and porpoises that call these temperate waters home.
  — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2018
• Orcas have the most varied diet of any whale, dolphin or porpoise, and can take on prey of all types, from stingrays to salmon, depending on the type of orca.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 25 Sep. 2018
• Researchers in Alaska have studied the harbor porpoise, elusive in those waters.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
• At the time, DiCaprio explained, there were fewer than 30 of the vaquita — a tiny porpoise — in the world.
  — Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• Inside are buckets and trays filled with the carcasses of everything from mice to giant porpoises and turtles.
  — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 25 July 2017

porpoise

2 of 2 verb

• Reindeer, porpoise, and freshwater fish bones further told researchers that rivers and lakes returned to this area.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
• Calvin stepped up to the glass, watching Fiona porpoise around Hippo Cove with her mother, Bibi.
  — Mallorie Sullivan, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• The length of the habitat allows the penguins to swim for long distances in a group, and bob in an out of the water (a phenomenon called porpoising).
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 7 Apr. 2023
• Other words, like robot, poodle and porpoise, are fun to discover, but also well-documented.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
• Swimmers porpoise through the shimmering water, while farther offshore surfers straddle their boards in anticipation of the next big wave.
  — Larry Pynn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
• Mincemeat pies, crane, swan, brawn (terrine made with a pig’s head and served with mustard), goose and lamprey pie, and even porpoise (served dressed with vinegar and breadcrumbs) were all popular holiday fare.
  — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
• This essentially means the city is globally recognized for protecting and caring for the whale, dolphin, and porpoise communities that pass through their waters.
  — Alanna Bennett, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Apr. 2026
• Plus, a propensity for porpoising down straightaways and under mild braking hinted at perhaps further refinement needed—not ideal for a car with such a unique suspension setup as its calling card, but that somehow weighs around 1,500 pounds more than the racecar that shares so many components.
  — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025