Sentence examples for before totality from inspiring English sources
Minutes before totality, the light takes on a weird flat, filmic appearance.
Despite worries about being "clouded out," minutes before totality the crescent sun appeared through a hole in the clouds.
Three minutes before totality, the sky darkens, many flowers fold up and birds and animals get confused.
They were seen as much as 20 minutes before totality, running parallel with the horizon, both below and above the sun, and even 20 minutes after totality.
"Before totality we were seeing three or four bands and there was one very low down on the horizon, bands of shadow on the cloud overhead".
After all, carbon footprint captures something we've never really had a simple phrase for before: the measurable totality of your environmental impact, or, to put it more simply, what your way of life actually costs the planet.
Implicit in that, and also more stark than before, is the totality of the assumption that the audience here is middle-class, and that working-class life must be discussed in those (our) terms.
Wednesday's event started at 8am GMT, before reaching totality at 10.25am GMT.
Frequently the depths of the wound in the immediate fracture zone become visibly clean and viable before the totality of the wound has closed or been covered.
The eclipse was expected to begin at 4am EDT (8am GMT) and reach totality before 6.25 EDT (10.25am GMT).
