Magog
Americannoun
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(in the Bible) a people descended from Japheth.
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a city in southern Quebec, in eastern Canada.
noun
Example Sentences
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They were taken across the border and moved to a house in Magog, Quebec.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2021
McBroom, known for his extreme green contours, toned it down considerably at Magog, relying on cants and slants more than humps and bumps.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 22, 2018
Outwardly the idealistic public servant, inwardly the unscrupulous hypocrite, Magog exemplifies Sinclair's epigram that "if politics was the art of the possible, then principles were the patina of the pragmatic."
From Time Magazine Archive
Goliath who, says the author, "was probably ten feet high," gets only a paragraph for all his bulk, nor do Og, Gog and Magog, those hairy monsters, rate more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Passing quickly through Cambridge and over the Gog Magog Hills without noticing them, we were soon at Royston, and from that point—to Oxford as it happened—we were beyond my manor.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)
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