She lay on the bed like a white, stranded whale.

The tiny craft clung to the giant's skin, like a fly on a stranded whale.

I felt like a stranded whale among the water nymphs.

One curious theory is that stranded whales are seeking physical stimulation.

We go down to the beach to try to push a stranded whale back into the ocean.

And almost directly below where he stood was the dark shape of the Jorum, like a stranded whale thrown up on a beach.

It can leave you like a stranded whale, feeling breathless, helpless and useless.

The strangers were an apparition here, a wonder greater than a stranded whale.

In the distance he looked enormous, like a stranded whale.

At first, the Japanese simply took stranded whales for food.