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)
A light yellow star in the right side of the Great Dog.
From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler
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