Great Dog
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Standing by the Hunter’s foot, the Great Dog is an easy-to-find constellation visible from most areas of the world, thanks to being positioned just south of the celestial equator.
From National Geographic • Aug. 23, 2023
Under the headline “Arrival of the Great Dog Judge,” one article reported that he had crossed the Atlantic “and is now quartered at the Fifth-Avenue Hotel.”
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2015
It was a three-quarter-page colored panel titled The Great Dog Show in M'Googan's Avenue, and peopled with alley cats, stray hounds and slum bums in high-society clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
This marvelous star, of dazzling brilliancy, is the first, α, in the constellation of the Great Dog, which forms a quadrilateral, the base of which is adjacent to a triangle erected from the horizon.
From Astronomy for Amateurs by Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice)
The constellation Canis Major, the Great Dog, is remarkable for containing Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard
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