Sentence examples for its fluke from inspiring English sources

As the dolphin emerges, that resistance greatly decreases and, with one last push of its fluke, it accelerates into a pirouette.

The bottlenose dolphin sometimes hits a fish with its fluke, sometimes knocking it out of the water, using a strategy called "fish whacking".

"As we got closer, we noticed that the whale didn't seem to be lifting its fluke (tail) out of the water as it dove," said Sierra Frye-Keele of the Pacific Whale Foundation.

Last year Connecticut exceeded its fluke quota by 24percentt.

We followed at a polite distance until the great beast arched, flicked its fluke and dove.

During one of our encounters, the whale rolls slowly at the surface, revealing all-white coloration on the undersides of its fluke.

Then, depending on the whale, it would either show us its flukes or quietly dive after the last breath.

The whale lifts its flukes high out of the water as it begins a feeding dive.

As the whale submerges, its flukes generate powerful vortices in the water.

What if a whale decided to flip us with its flukes?

The whale almost never lifts its flukes above the surface, and are generally less active on water surfaces than close related Bryde's whales; it rarely breaches.