How to Use whale shark in a Sentence

whale shark

noun

• Their new target is whale sharks, the world's largest fish species.
  — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
• In it, the whale shark is seen slowly swimming around the boat.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• First, the orcas use their bodies to hit a whale shark at high speed.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
• The boat’s net courses through the water like a gape-mouthed whale shark.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Megalodons are larger than whale sharks, but the largest shark alive is a whale shark.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• Gillett shared the same image on her own account, plus a bonus shot of a whale shark.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2026
• Sharks are rare, but whale sharks visit the region in the early spring.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2020
• Cargo vessels are killing whale sharks and right whales and sea turtles.
  — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• The basking shark is the second-largest fish species after the whale shark.
  — Charna Flam, People.com, 28 May 2025
• The whale shark’s massive fins, skin and liver oil are highly prized.
  — Discover Magazine, 26 July 2017
• The fish have been found in the gills and cloacal openings of whale sharks and the mouths of lemon sharks.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 11 May 2026
• The whale shark, always a fish of extremes, has more than three hundred rows of tiny teeth.
  — Katherine Rundell, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Today, whale sharks are the largest fish in the sea—growing to nearly the size of a school bus.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 4 June 2018
• Some believe the whale shark is really the largest fish to ever live.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• This move paralyzes them and causes the whale sharks to slip into a kind of trance.
  — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
• What could have driven a whale shark to cover such a tremendous distance?
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 8 May 2018
• Scientists weren’t even certain the whale sharks that showed up would be pregnant.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• The whale shark then poked its head out of the water again, and Sailor touched her nose with the whale shark's snout.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• Older whale sharks will therefore have less and less Carbon-14.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2020
• Guests can snorkel and dive with whale sharks in southern waters and alongside manta rays in the north.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2024
• Water sports, like diving with whale sharks off the coast of Cozumel, are a major draw.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
• The carcasses washed up on the beach range in size from small bait fish to a 26-foot-long whale shark.
  — Jonathan Serrie, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
• But the whale shark tissue of these whale sharks from Ningaloo was different.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• In season, a maximum of 14 tour boats are allowed to look for whale sharks.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
• During the summer months, whale sharks come to the waters around Cancun.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2024
• And whale sharks, which can reach up to 39 feet in length, conserve body heat simply because of their size.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023
• Those on the boat estimated the whale shark was 25 to 30 feet long.
  — Doug Phillips, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• The largest shark is typically the largest fish, too, like today’s largest living fish, the whale shark.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• The orcas appear to be targeting the whale sharks’ ventral side–the area near their bellies.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2024
• In Cabo San Lucas, swim with whale sharks and supper along with sea lions.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2019