eclipse
Example Sentences
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In other words, the coronagraph acts like an artificial Moon, blocking the Sun's bright surface to let scientists continuously observe its faint outer corona -something the real Moon does only during eclipses.
From BBC
Welsh rugby plumbed new depths at their own ground, eclipsing the 68-14 Six Nations defeat by England in March.
From BBC
Debate around it had been partially eclipsed by partisan drama between Carney's Liberals and the Conservative opposition, who lost a member of their caucus to the Liberals shortly after the fiscal plan was proposed.
From BBC
The dazzle of their outfits eclipsed the afterglow of the light.
From Los Angeles Times
By the early 1960s it was headed for extinction, eclipsed by more practical film formats—to say nothing of the versatile, reliable miracles that are today’s digital movie cameras.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
