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• There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantelpiece.From the entry miniature
• I saw her whaling away at her detractors.From the entry away
• The wrench wouldn’t budge, even though Tony was just whaling on it with a big old sledge hammer.From the entry whale on
• Sailors on whaling ships were traditionally shipped by the lay.From the entry by the lay
• This proved difficult, so the IWC simply gave up and imposed a moratorium on whaling altogether.2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, in The Guardian. From the entry flounce
• His father says the races have been mingling in New Bej since the whaling days.2011 July 1, Randall Peffer, Old School Bones, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry New Beige
• Still, while most Japanese may not care for the meat, many object to calls to stop whaling.2006 April 17, Unmesh Kher, “Whale On the Plate”, in Time. From the entry care for
• They beat him down and kept whaling him after he was flat.2004, Steve Frazee, Voices in the Hill, →ISBN. From the entry whale
• Standing at the front, wearing a guitar and whaling on it as she sang, was Sara Tidwell.1999, Stephen King, Bag of Bones. From the entry whale on
• The last significant innovation in whalecraft combined characteristics of the harpoon and the whaling gun.1997, Lance Edwin Davis, Robert E. Gallman, Karin Gleiter, In pursuit of Leviathan, page 294. From the entry whalecraft
• Gradually, spy-hopping humpbacks viewing whaling vessels became mating whales embracing in a double spy-hop.1995, Michelle A. Gilders, Reflections of a Whale-Watcher, Indiana University Press, page 47. From the entry spy-hop
• The author has packed standard ingredients into this story, including a fiendish captain, detailed information on whalelore and modern whaling methods.1960, Michael Williams, Commonweal, volume 72, page 235. From the entry whalelore
• From the mate’s boat they removed, at his direction, all whaling gear and craft except the oars and a single lance.a. 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, “A Boy Who Went Whaling”, in The Highest Hit: and Other Selections by Newbery Authors, Gareth Stevens…. From the entry craft
• He displaces the violence emblemized by the whaling industry away from whales and onto humankind's fate while transcoding Ahab's defiance as the whale's defiance.2021, Rebecca Giggs, Timothy Sweet, page 91. From the entry whalekind
• If time was available, whaling prospects poor, and the weather gentle, a gam might last all day and include tea and dinner.1997, Gillies Ross, Margaret Penny, This Distant and Unsurveyed Country, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry gam
• The men raced about decks collecting the whaling craft and gear and putting them into the boats, while all the time the lookouts hollered from above.1991, Joan Druett, Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820–1920, University Press of New England, published 2001, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry craft
• I like to think that Old Grandma Sperm Whales tell bedtime stories to the little whalings all about the deviousness and monstrosity that humankind used to inflict upon their ancestors.2009, plasticactus.livejournal.com/1924.html?thread=4228. From the entry whaleling
• However, since the mandarins have articulated whaling as an issue involving preservation of cultural diversity and a nationalistic rebuff to US ecoimperialism, the prospects for reconciliation and compromise are remote.2004, Jeff Kingston, Japan's Quiet Transformation. From the entry ecoimperialism
• Also local bluefish, filleted and grilled alongside a few lengths of chourico, the garlicky pork sausage that is made in nearby New Bedford by the great-great-grandchildren of Portuguese whaling men.2003 July 30, Sam Sifton, “A Perfect Change-Up: Bluefish, Sausage and Clams”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry chouriço

Meaning of whaling

1. noun The practice of hunting whales.
2. noun The practice of spotting whales.
3. noun A beating.

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How do you use whaling in a sentence?

Whaling is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantelpiece.”

What is a short sentence with whaling?

“I saw her whaling away at her detractors.”

What does whaling mean?

Whaling means the practice of hunting whales.