Get to know Blowhole better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like spiracle or vent.
Blowhole meaning
- The spiracle, on the top of the head, through which cetaceans breathe.
- A hole in sea ice where cetaceans and pinnipeds come to breathe.
- A top-facing opening to a cavity in the ground very near an ocean's shore, leading to a marine cave from which wave water or bursts of air are expelled.
Using Blowhole
- The main meaning on this page is: The spiracle, on the top of the head, through which cetaceans breathe. | A hole in sea ice where cetaceans and pinnipeds come to breathe. | A top-facing opening to a cavity in the ground very near an ocean's shore, leading to a marine cave from which wave water or bursts of air are expelled.
- Useful related words include: spiracle, vent, venthole, vent-hole.
- In the example corpus, blowhole often appears in combinations such as: the blowhole, her blowhole.
Context around Blowhole
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 0 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Blowhole
- In this selection, "blowhole" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include through her blowhole and only one blowhole. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "blowhole" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with blowhole
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Me, I've got empathy coming out the blowhole. (9 words)
A killer whale has been taught to speak human words through her blowhole. (13 words)
In the videos, remoras tended to cluster around the whale’s blowhole and dorsal fin. (15 words)
With the help of skilled drone pilots from SR3 or Sealife Response, Rehabilitation, and ResearchWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution the team worked together to position the drone over the blowhole of the whale and catch the spray. (36 words)
This is an efficient method of hunting, in which the whale has no major competitors.sfn Odontocetes seeAlso Odontocetes are known as toothed whales; they have teeth and only one blowhole. (31 words)
In the wheelhouse of a crab boat named Heidi Sue, Mike Pettis watched the gray whale surface and shoot water through its blowhole. (23 words)
Example sentences (7)
In the wheelhouse of a crab boat named Heidi Sue, Mike Pettis watched the gray whale surface and shoot water through its blowhole.
Me, I've got empathy coming out the blowhole.
In the videos, remoras tended to cluster around the whale’s blowhole and dorsal fin.
With the help of skilled drone pilots from SR3 or Sealife Response, Rehabilitation, and ResearchWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution the team worked together to position the drone over the blowhole of the whale and catch the spray.
A killer whale has been taught to speak human words through her blowhole.
They attempted to train Wikie to repeat their words, not though her mouth, but through her blowhole.
This is an efficient method of hunting, in which the whale has no major competitors.sfn Odontocetes seeAlso Odontocetes are known as toothed whales; they have teeth and only one blowhole.
Common combinations with blowhole
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: