How to Use white whale in a Sentence

white whale

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• Who is your white whale for the show?
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
• Well… no, there’s nobody who is like the white whale.
  — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 18 Nov. 2025
• For more than two decades, Musk’s white whale has been the red planet.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
• And literary fame a white whale.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
• If there's that one white whale item that's been evading you, these are the places to find it.
  — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 12 July 2024
• Karen Read is Meatball’s white whale.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
• About an hour into the swim, the team spotted a pod of black-and-white whales.
  — National Geographic, 21 June 2018
• Whatever your white whale is, now is the time to go after it.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2018
• But in this family of three or four, there was one solid white whale, which is very rare.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2020
• The rum has been selling well, but even now Thrasher feels the wake of the great white whale.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
• There is a typewriter that is like the white whale of typewriters.
  — John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
• Drilling down into the cause of that drag decrease remains the panel’s white whale.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019
• There was also the home defeat to Grand Canyon, their great white whale.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
• For at least a decade, the quadruple axel jump was figure skating’s white whale.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2026
• Vegan cheese is sort of the white whale of vegan products as a whole.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2021
• On top of all this, Apple’s white whale these days seems to be developing a car.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 10 Dec. 2021
• The story will be told through the eyes of Ishmael, the sole survivor of the clash with the great white whale.
  — Joseph Hernandez march 26, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
• How did Napoleon being Kubrick’s white whale inform your own approach?
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2023
• The other goal, of course, is their great white whale—a non-fossil-fuel economy.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• These small, white whales are found in icy cold waters throughout the Arctic swimming in pods.
  — Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
• Some other whale had gnawed off Ahab’s leg; the white whale was as innocent as the driven snow.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Come to think of it, László's model looks very much like a big white whale that happened to swallow a church.
  — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
• Captain Ahab is obsessed with killing the great white whale and is destroyed by his compulsion.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2020
• The film has remained in the vault for years since, becoming somewhat of a white whale for the director’s fans.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
• Texas has been Democrats' white whale, their Lucy and the football — getting close, but coming up just short.
  — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 4 Mar. 2026
• The Oilers have clearly become the Kings’ white whale, the foe who must be vanquished.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
• For 40 years now, the ‘quinto partido’, the fifth game, has been their white whale, forever out of reach.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 1 June 2026
• Removing the sales tax from fuel sales has been the elusive white whale in decades of road funding discussions.
  — Paul Egan, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
• So the surfers press on, in search of the perfect wave, a sea creature as elusive and symbolic as Ahab’s white whale.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• White, straight-leg jeans have been my sartorial white whale for the better half of 2022.
  — The Glamour Editors, Glamour, 4 Jan. 2023