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Western Europe and parts of West Africa will catch totality at moonset.—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2025 During totality, the entire moon is inside Earth's umbra, turning a deep red or orange color.—William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025 And unlike the rare total solar eclipse that carved a path of totality across only a portion of states in 2024, this month's lunar eclipse will be viewable in all of the lower 48 states.—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025 Watching the moon slowly swallowed by shadow is pretty amazing, and the reddish cast of totality is astonishing.—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for totality
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