Dog Star

Example Sentences

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Then fetch Sirius — the dog star — a binary star system that is the brightest star in our heavens.

From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2016

We would call it the dog days of summer, but it’s a little too late for that — the dog star has come and gone.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2015

Instead, it turns out, the dog days refer to the dog star, Sirius, and its position in the heavens.

From National Geographic • Jul. 10, 2015

I heard one dealer refer to a piece that combined 2-D and 3-D elements surrounding the dog star Lassie as “phenomenological.”

From BusinessWeek • Dec. 5, 2011

That star you saw beat like a heart must have been a dog star.

From Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston by Ruskin, John