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
• In the end, the Navy found Crozier should have been removed for his lack of action in the totality of the crisis.
  — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2020
• Unlike 2017’s event, the skies won’t get dark and there will be no totality.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• The Heat have had proven success through the totality of the season with Kendrick starting.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The totality of his love for her overjoyed and overwhelmed him.
  — Jenny McPhee, The New York Review of Books, 2 May 2020
• 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
• And so that’s probably a reflection of the snap totality of last week.
  — John Perrotto, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• Jim took issue with the mixed commentary around the new device, citing the totality of the capabilities of the new iPhone 16 from artificial intelligence to longer battery life to better cameras.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024