Example sentences for: orca

How can you use “orca” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Metamorph acquisition software (Universal Imaging Corporation, Downingtown, PA) on an Orca cooled interline camera (Hamamatsu, Bridgewater, NJ) were used to collect the images.

  • They went to its binomial Orcinus orca (Linnaeus 1758) to find a softer synonym and chose “Orca.”

  • Orca functions as a euphemism only because its true meaning is forgotten.

  • Although orca can mean a `dice box' (or a `little barrel'), it also means a `kind of whale, the great killer,' perhaps derived from Orcus . Surely it was in this sense that Linnaeus used it.


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