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Six example sentences with eclipse, each labelled with its topic.
Thousands booked flights to the Chilean desert for the eclipse, hoping two minutes of darkness would justify the fare.
Travel
An eclipse recorded by Babylonian scribes lets modern astronomers date the battle to a single afternoon in April.
Science
Never point a bare lens at the sun, even during an eclipse, without the filter the manufacturer supplies.
Photography
Columbus used a predicted eclipse to frighten the islanders into feeding his stranded crew in 1504.
History
Twain's Yankee saves his own life by predicting an eclipse, a trick the author borrowed from Columbus.
Literature
Birds fell silent and bats emerged during the eclipse, as though the whole valley had skipped ahead to dusk.
Environment
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