sei

Example Sentences

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The whale, which marine authorities described as a sei whale, is known for its rapid swimming and preference for deep waters, far from the coast.

From New York Times • May 8, 2024

Thanks to Danish and Scottish Marine Mammal Stranding Networks, the researchers could quickly extract the larynx of a sei, minke and humpback whale for close investigation in the lab.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

He and his colleagues carried out experiments using larynxes, or "voice boxes", that had been carefully removed from three carcasses of stranded whales - a minke, a humpback and a sei whale.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2024

They were 21 humpback whales; three sperm whales; three minke whales; two North Atlantic right whales and one sei whale.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2023

"I am no sei," the Hound replied, but he took the vic-tory, and the champion's purse, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, the love of the commons.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin