Example sentences for: eclipsed

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

  • The first example, of a West African man being beaten up by a skinhead who didn't like the color of his skin, was only eclipsed in horror by the story of a man who had his head split in half and was "roasted" by a man who claimed the victim had made a pass at him.

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

  • 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.

  • 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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