How to Use totality in a Sentence

totality

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  • 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
  • Those were the totality of the Cavs' scores in overtime.
    — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 2 May 2018
  • 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
  • The totality of the staff coach David Shaw has compiled made its mark on Jones as well.
    — Shotgun Spratling, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 2 May 2021
  • Those are important too — but not the totality of the church.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2019
  • The path of totality, in which the moon visibly blocks the sun, could be seen in Chile and Argentina.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 2 July 2019
  • 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
  • Only those in the path of totality could briefly remove them to see the sun's corona with their naked eyes.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Not just wins, not just losses, but the totality of the season and how those teams performed .
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The fact that the festival screens too many films for anyone to see in totality makes the annual push to form snap judgments—good year?
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Each franchise is different in the totality of their worth.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2025

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