"stranded whale" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a whale that has become stuck or marooned on land or in shallow waters. Example: "The residents of the small coastal town were shocked to discover a stranded whale on their beach this morning."
The first sighting of a stranded whale was reported to the conservancy on May 5.
Children can learn how to safely rescue a stranded whale while their parents investigate the making of scrimshaw.
But with Ward's final heave, Kelly's body swallows it in one gulp -- like an ocean engulfing a stranded whale.
Most affecting are the lines from poet Stanley Kunitz, to address a stranded whale on Cape Cod: "You have become like us/Disgraced and mortal".
Indeed, the artist Albrecht Dürer, in his eagerness to reach a similarly stranded whale on Denmark's Zealand coast, caught a fever from the marsh, and likewise perished as a result.
A stranded whale was once regarded as an ill omen; a right whale that stranded in the Thames in 1658 was widely seen as an augury of the death of Oliver Cromwell.
Of the 18 documents, five deal with postmortems of the stranded whales, one combines pathology with a stranding response report, one is a timeline gathered together by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the International FAW, and eleven are from Exxon Mobil's Madagascar subsidiary (known as EMEPNML).
Stranded whales, not seals, get more public notice.
Daily Express: Whales stranded in Australia Daily Telegraph: Scores of stranded whales and dolphins saved.
She has performed well over 400 dissections on stranded whales.
The volunteers covered the stranded whales in sheets and kept them wet through the day.
