How to Use totality in a Sentence

totality

noun
  • Human totality is more than the sum of the parts.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • But the totality of the cap hits between this year and next year would’ve been the same.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026
  • As soon as totality ends, eclipse glasses must go back on.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • 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
  • While totality has ended, the eclipse is far from over.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • As the moon fully blocks the sun, day will turn briefly to night across the path of totality.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • But that was not a comment on what the whole totality of the police force feels.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Durant has unlocked the totality of his game and has room to grow even more.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, The Mercury News, 9 June 2017
  • This was the best weekend in totality in terms of offense for us.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 2 May 2021
  • Your returns come when the totality of the equation is well-oiled and aligned.
    — Anto Dotcom, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2022
  • While the eclipse will last a couple of hours, totality will last just about four minutes.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Here's when totality happens in some key cities.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The totality of his love for her overjoyed and overwhelmed him.
    — Jenny McPhee, The New York Review of Books, 2 May 2020
  • Those are important too — but not the totality of the church.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2019
  • These are the times for totality only.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There is no such thing as partial totality — just a partial eclipse and a total eclipse.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 June 2026
  • Millions were in the path of totality to watch as the moon moved between Earth and the sun.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Not just wins, not just losses, but the totality of the season and how those teams performed .
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • When the two minutes and nine seconds of the totality passed, applause broke out.
    — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2021
  • Because to name this is to resist its totality.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The track of the moon's shadow across Earth's surface is called the path of totality.
    — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2024
  • But that didn’t mean the departures didn’t hurt, and the totality of them wasn’t jarring.
    — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The moon will set during totality in the Eastern time zone.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The moon will set during totality in the Eastern time zone.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The moon will turn deep shades of rusty-red throughout the more than hourlong totality, an amazing sight in the night sky.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The author of this essay has failed to look at this social issue in totality.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The hope is that the role gives Schiano a better feel for the totality of the defense.
    — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 29 July 2017
  • Then at totality, watch how the shades of color morph on the lunar surface – from rosy-gray to pink to orange.
    — Dean Regas, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Unlike 2017’s event, the skies won’t get dark and there will be no totality.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021

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