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 Big Dipper is not an official constellation but instead makes up the bright derriere and tail of Ursa Major.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024