Example sentences for: eclipsed

How can you use “eclipsed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In other words, the marketplace was already bringing Standard to its knees, and Rockefeller did indeed end up "eclipsed by others"--without government intervention.

  • Though eclipsed somewhat by Philip Roth's and Saul Bellow's new novels, Cynthia Ozick's latest gets glowing reviews just the same.

  • Back home, I derived a certain depraved buzz in cinching the device on, but that was soon eclipsed.

  • Schoenfeld has an answer to that, and it is a well-known one, having first been set forth in another Commentary essay in 1981 by the great Biblical scholar Robert Alter: The danger with Holocaust Studies is that, in the proliferation of methodologies and agendas, the incomprehensible horror of the event may be lost--eclipsed, as humanity of the Jews was eclipsed, by a fog of categories and subcategories and rhetorical feints at ideological opponents.

  • With Reed gone into private political consulting, the Christian Coalition has been eclipsed by Bauer and Dobson.


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