Used in a Sentence

whaling

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for whaling.

Editorial note

This means, the best you could do is brake even on your whaling activity.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The practice of hunting whales.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of whaling gathered in one view.

noun

The practice of hunting whales.

noun

The practice of spotting whales.

noun

(informal) A beating.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for whaling.

noun

The practice of hunting whales.

noun

The practice of spotting whales.

noun

(informal) A beating.

noun

(computing) A form of highly personalized cyberattack that targets a senior business executive.

Example sentences

1

This means, the best you could do is brake even on your whaling activity.

2

They might not be as severe as over dishing o bogus scientific whaling but they are still important.

3

At the same time, he was regularly diagnosing cancers among the crews of whaling ships and other Westernized populations.

4

In his pamphlet, Goranson did a great job of arguing that whaling ships were the worlds first Virtual Agile Enterprises.

5

The whaling now is done by people with money, in order to earn more money.

6

Then, in the fall of 1902, the British trading/whaling vessel named the Active had made a stop at Cape Low, Southampton Island.

7

How did we get stuck into the Japanese over whaling, yet happily chow down on all those factory-produced chickens.

8

I was upset to hear that nearly $30 million of the tsunami relief money ended up subsidizing the Japanese whaling fleet.

9

People have been using harpoons at sea for whaling for centuries.

10

It's just someone whaling on someone else for three panels.

11

However, the IWC resolution to ban whaling is not binding.

12

Therefore, relief money subsidized the Japanese whaling fleet.

Quote examples

1

I dunno, Moby Dick is like a whaling blog by a philosophy major complete with "links" to such things as the definition of whiteness and lists of whale types.

2

Patrick Moore, who would presumably know more about environmentalism than almost anyone reading this, rejects the climate-anti-capitalism hysteria that has co-opted the "old" environmentalism of reducing pollution, whaling, overfishing, nuclear waste and other, more pure protections of our environment.

3

But whether defending whaling, or the rights of its leaders to worship at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, which houses the "souls" of more than 2 million dead Japanese soldiers, including 14 class-A war criminals from World War II, Japan often has a hard time explaining itself to the rest of the world.

Proper noun examples

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Whaling is a tradition in Norway and has been going on since medieval times.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use whaling in a sentence?

This means, the best you could do is brake even on your whaling activity.

What does whaling mean?

The practice of hunting whales.

What part of speech is whaling?

whaling is commonly used as noun.