Example Sentences

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In a world where shows like Eclipsed and Hamilton, or The Crucible from last season exist...it is clear that on the Roundabout stages there just is no there there anymore.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2016

Eclipsed for much of the 20th century by such tools as vector analysis and matrix algebra, quaternions have more recently enjoyed a renaissance.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2016

Photograph: Lev Radin/Pacific/Barcroft With two vote-splitting actresses nominated from both Eclipsed and Noises Off, this looks like the year for the thrice-nominated Jayne Houdyshell, who plays the sorrowful yet buoyant Deirdre in The Humans.

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2016

"We still living in a time period where the most impoverished and disadvantaged people in the world are, without question, women and girls," said Gurira, the playwright of the Broadway show "Eclipsed," in an interview.

From US News • Mar. 6, 2016

So great was the light of this happy Region, that as the light of a candle is Eclipsed by that of the Sun, so was the light of the Sun by the brightness of this.

From The Purgatory of St. Patrick by MacCarthy, Denis Florence