How to Use totality in a Sentence

totality

noun

• That is how the first drive of the night went, but that was also the totality of the evening.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Nov. 2021
• Millions were in the path of totality to watch as the moon moved between Earth and the sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
• The track of the moon's shadow across Earth's surface is called the path of totality.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2024
• That was the end, though not the totality of the undoing.
  — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 9 Apr. 2021
• The rare total eclipse of the sun is April 8, and Hillsboro is one of the closest Texas cities to the path of totality.
  — Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
• But that was not a comment on what the whole totality of the police force feels.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2022
• The totality of the Blood Moon lunar eclipse would last for around 14 minutes and 30 seconds and the moon.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 26 May 2021
• Your returns come when the totality of the equation is well-oiled and aligned.
  — Anto Dotcom, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2022
• Unlike 2017’s event, the skies won’t get dark and there will be no totality.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• And the totality, the experience of it all, is what Ron’s Place is about.
  — Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
• This was the best weekend in totality in terms of offense for us.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 2 May 2021
• The 30-stock index measures just a fraction of the totality of the U.S. stock market.
  — WSJ, 21 July 2023
• While the eclipse will last a couple of hours, totality will last just about four minutes.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
• Fun fact: San Antonio is one of few cities on the path of totality for next year’s eclipse, too.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2023
• That is part of my goal and part of my role in editing — to take both the macro and the micro view of fairness and to look at the story in its totality.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
• The water around us was gin clear in the palm of my hand, but with a depth of three miles, its totality was a glowing, rich blueness.
  — Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, the fox is ostensibly lost among the trees and does not grasp the totality of the forest around it.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• When the two minutes and nine seconds of the totality passed, applause broke out.
  — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2021
• The country as a whole, meanwhile, is somehow the totality of them all — a whole comprised of those parts.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 26 May 2021
• This hybrid solar eclipse brought people from around the globe to the small town of Exmouth, one of the only places that had a view of the full totality.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023
• What was the reddish-pink light around the moon during totality?
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2024
• At the moment of totality, the sun, earth and moon will all align to awe-inspiring effect.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
• There are those for whom his contribution to the war in Iraq will be the totality of his legacy.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2021
• Something about the whole thing in totality feels … off.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• That means your No. 1 objective for next April 8 is to get into the path of totality.
  — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• This is the first comprehensive picture of where the Ukraine war has been fought and the totality of the destruction.
  — Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• During totality, people there will see a ring of sunlight — or ring of fire, as many call it — glow around the entire edge of the moon.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
• The singer’s 13-minute acceptance speech can be viewed in its totality on YouTube.
  — EW.com, 1 July 2024
• The only exception — and where any of the above uncertainty causes a problem — is the edges of the path of totality.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• Her refusal to back down fortified the totality of her work.
  — Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024