Sentence examples for described whales from inspiring English sources

I watched, wide-eyed, the soundless slide of that "moving land," as Milton once described whales, everywhere beneath our boat, and suddenly felt the whole of myself wanting to go away with her; to hop on for a long ride downward toward some dimly remembered, primordial home.

The whales are known as "canaries of the sea" for their high-pitched chirps, but while a number of anecdotal reports have described whales making human-like speech, none had ever been recorded.

As a writer, I'd spent years trying to describe whales, and here was a whale, trying to describe me.

How ironic: I'd spent five years trying to describe whales, and now here was a whale trying to describe me.

Much as the tablet or the PC act as casual game vectors when not being used for other purposes, red button games often attracted customers every bit as loyal as those we think of when we describe "whales" (or other ignominious terms) in today's free-to-play world.

A familiar illustration is the many words (or variations of words) that Eskimos use to describe whale blubber in its various states e.g., on the whale, ready to eat, raw, cooked, rancid.

Long ago, John Muir described humpback whales as the warm, pulsing heartbeat of the ocean.

They were skilled canoeists and hunted in the open ocean for what Fontaneda described as whales, but were probably manatees.

Elizabeth Wilson, who leads the Pew Environment Group's global shark conservation campaign, described the whale shark measures as a victory.

The paper described a whale surveillance flight over Alaska's Beaufort Sea in 2004, during which they spotted four polar bear carcasses floating in open water far from land or the receding ice pack.

When Raul Guerrero, an internationally known artist invited me to join him this week for a farewell drink, he described The Whaling Bar as a sanctuary for writers and artists.