Sentence examples for blowhole from inspiring English sources

If they see a spout of mist from the blowhole of a grey whale, the tribal members will paddle stealthily up to the whale and throw a sharp harpoon into the mammal's flanks.

In some cases, the ceiling entrance serves as a blowhole from which water spouts during times of high tide or rough seas.

Nearby Jōdoga Beach, renowned for its blowhole, is part of Rikuchu-kaigan National Park. Rikuchu-kaigan National Park

To produce such high frequencies, toothed whales possess modified tissues associated with the blowhole on the right side of the head; the left side is not modified, and the result is skull asymmetry.

Nothing in the hunt is as memorable as the blessed pause that comes in its wake, as the wounded whale sprays blood through its blowhole, and Thomas's awestruck face is dusted with a rain of red.

A succession of suspended-overhead skeletons makes the compelling case that a four-legged wolf-size carnivorous mammal that, fifty million years ago, roamed what is now Pakistan managed, during a leisurely twenty million years (skipping a few finer points here), to lose its fur and its ratlike snout, transform its legs into flippers, refine its method of echolocation, and develop a blowhole.

They take part in a tea ceremony before blowing through blowhole-like cavities on the back of their necks and cutting each other's thighs and feet with knives.

A young knight-librarian, Rook Barkwater, inches his way through peril, meeting ferocious birds, treacherous blowholes and bogs, and much else to keep him on his mettle.Ursula Le Guin is a distinguished author of fantasies for older children.

Hydrogen can also form blowholes in castings.

The level of dissolved oxygen in liquid steel must be lowered because oxygen reacts with carbon during solidification and forms carbon monoxide and blowholes in the cast.

This ingot has no open cavity, but there are many blowholes in the centre that normally weld together during hot-rolling.