Example sentences for: whaling

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

  • Some--like Norway and Sweden--were interested in whaling and fur sealing.

  • The Hawaiian economy was rising, sustained in part by whaling.

  • Caniçal was once a famous whaling port, but since whaling was banned in these waters in 1981, all that remains of this formerly lucrative industry is a Museum of Whaling and a few scrimshaw and whalebone souvenirs in a hut by the beach (more of the same is on sale at the car park at the end of the road heading east).

  • Invited by his buddy Arnie (Adrien Brody), a Jewish boy with garish rapper affectations, to help collect a debt for a mobster from the proprietor of a sex club, Harry finds himself bombarded by images of topless women and unable to keep from whaling on a man they came only to threaten.

  • And although hazardous materials teams know that most calls are hoaxes, "You always have to treat a threat as real," says Mark Whaling of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.


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