Sentence examples for whale jaw from inspiring English sources
To better understand how the jaws could coordinate this maneuver, paleontologist Nicholas Pyenson of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., and his colleagues collected whale jaw tissue at an onshore whaling station in Iceland where captured whales were brought in for processing.
There it was turned into Ahab's Pequod, a ship tricked out in the very bones of its foe, with a whale jaw for its tiller.
Other exhibits convey what it was like to live in the cramped forecastle below decks; to stare into a whale jaw that, like Moby Dick's, was crooked; or the consequences of getting caught in a line and being pulled under by a whale — a fate "which carries more of true terror than any other aspect of this dangerous affair".
A mass of white and gold paint, the hall has somehow kept all its original fittings, which display stuffed birds, a whale jaw, glass pyramids filled with robin eggs and wax models of every fruit to be found in Bamberg, with everything somehow almost glowing with that era's atmosphere of genial inquiry.
Combining data from these tags with measurements of whale jaws from museum specimens, the team modeled the drag experienced by the whale as it performs its complex underwater acrobatics.
A beached whale, its jaw swung open as if in sad amazement, glitters in the sunlight, its blanched skin seeming to blend with the white waves sweeping in behind it.
The best-known example of it is the crude apparition resembling a whale's jaw that lies mysteriously on the floor in Hans Holbein's elegant painting "The Ambassadors" (1533).
Two or three times on my visit I sat under the blue whale's jaw, or even within the cage of its chest, the thick portcullis of its ribs descending around.
But most of the bones are marine: scraps of whale bone, jaw and skull fragments of harp seals, a bit of inner ear of a hooded seal.
Carol Ray held "Baby Shamu" backstage in a side tank and as she reached in to pet the young orca's tongue, the whale's jaw popped down on her hand.
The organ is at the front tip of the whales' lower jaws, in between their two bowed jawbones.
