Phenomenon in which a whale becomes stuck on a beach, often causing the whale's death.
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Examples for "whale beaching "
Examples for "whale beaching "
1 A whale beaching had not been recorded in the area before, he added.
2 Marine experts and volunteers are on high alert amid fears of a mass whale beaching along the Irish coast.
3 Whale beachings are common in the region, but one of this size has not been seen in over a decade.
4 Two boats were in the water off Ruakaka Beach this morning to try to stop the rest of the pod of whales beaching .
5 Whale beaching : An enduring mystery Rescuers are trying to free a pod of long-finned pilot whales stranded off the Australian island of Tasmania.
1 Rescuers try to help a stranded whale off the coast of Northland.
2 Kuia crying as they watch the stranded whale on a Northland beach.
3 Hog remained there in the middle of the dusty road like a stranded whale .
4 In the distance he looked enormous, like a stranded whale .
5 A stranded whale on a Waikato beach has died, despite rescuers' best efforts to save it.
1 She searched for and found the man lying like a beached whale .
2 Gil resembled nothing more than a beached whale dressed up in farmer's clothes.
3 He was back on his belly, doing his beached whale imitation.
4 He looked like a beached whale , lying on his side in the sand.
5 I read somewhere that a beached whale will die from an overdose of gravity.
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Translations for cetacean stranding