Example sentences for: eclipsed

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

  • ) Greville's admiring biography of his friend, who died young, may have somewhat eclipsed Greville's own reputation.

  • Chatterbox at first thought this was an adventurous metaphor for the way Blumenthal's story had been eclipsed by the news from Iraq, or the lull in the Flytrap scandal, or by Broder's own attitude.

  • Gates and Microsoft are selling intellectual products that they thought up and that could eventually be eclipsed by others.

  • 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.

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


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