How to Use Ursa Major in a Sentence

Ursa Major

noun
  • There was a six-year break before Ursa Major arrived in 2009.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 May 2022
  • The legend goes that Melikki pulled the bear constellation (Ursa Major) down from the sky for the hunters.
    Lara Jo Hightower, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The seven stars that form its distinctive shape are part of a much larger constellation: Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
    Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • The Big Dipper is actually part of Ursa Major and is used as a guide to finding other constellations in the sky.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The telescope spent 10 days of exposure time staring at a tiny patch of the sky in the Ursa Major constellation, just one-thirteenth of the moon’s angular diameter.
    Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 15 July 2022
  • The massive galaxy cluster can be found in the Ursa Major constellation within the northern hemisphere.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 June 2022
  • The spiral galaxy is located some 53 million light-years away, in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 31 May 2022
  • Travelers can now stay in one of 72 custom, 31-foot Airstreams with a queen-size bed, a bathroom with a walk-in shower and Ursa Major toiletries, a kitchenette, air conditioning, and a private patio.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2023
  • The bear, through religious creed and deity and the celestial configuration of Ursa Major, enjoyed exalted status.
    A. Craig Copetas, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2022
  • This Ursa Major daily moisturizer is vegan and cruelty-free, and made without parabens, sulfates, synthetic fragrances, colorants or gluten.
    Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022

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