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

And so is the old notion that dogs are likely to go mad during the dog days "because the dog star is in the ascendant."

From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Rogers, Julia Ellen