How to Use Great Bear in a Sentence

Great Bear

noun
  • On the left side of the sky is the Big Dipper, part of the Great Bear, Ursa Major.
    — Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Their closest neighbors were the grizzlies and black bears that wandered over from the aptly named Great Bear Rainforest.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The comet is currently passing through the southern boundaries of Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Trudeau opposed a pipeline that could cross northern British Columbia and the Great Bear Rainforest.
    — ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • The Big Dipper, though, makes up the rear end and tail of a larger actual constellation called Ursa Major, or Great Bear.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 14 June 2026
  • Grizzly bears have lived alongside the Nuxalk Nation for generations, and the valley is promoted as a gateway to the Great Bear Rainforest.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The Cigar Galaxy is located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, or the Great Bear.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The summit offers views into Glacier National Park, the Great Bear Wilderness, and hundreds of peaks across northwest Montana.
    — Outside, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The Big Dipper is not a constellation itself, but an asterism which is part of the larger constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 15 May 2026
  • Nimmo Bay sits on a remote inlet in the Great Bear Rainforest, surrounded by 50,000 square miles of wilderness with no roads, no neighbors, and no cell service.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Located some 104 light-years from Earth, eta Ursa Majoris is one of the brightest stars in the constellation Great Bear (Ursa Major).
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Holland America is running its Alaska and Great Bear Rainforest itinerary twice in 2026 and at least once in 2027.
    — Aaron Saunders, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The Races at Great Bear Participants in the skiing and snowboarding competition can earn points toward an invitational on March 1, in which the top five racers from the season will compete.
    — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Over the course of a week, Noordam would sail from Seattle to Ketchikan, Alaska, before heading south through the scenic coast of British Columbia and the magnificent Great Bear Rainforest.
    — Aaron Saunders, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2026

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