Sentence examples for eclipse a record from inspiring English sources

And these were the Warriors: a dynasty apparent that not only ripped through the regular season with a scant nine losses in 82 games (to eclipse a record set, notably, by Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls) but who represent something of a New World Order in basketball: a team that embodied how the three-point shot is changing the sport more completely than any other.

In 1960, this "musical entertainment" became the West End's most durable resident, eclipsing a record held since 1921 by the Orientalist pantomime Chu Chin Chow.

It was on Sept. 6, 1995, when he eclipsed a record many thought would never be broken, Gehrig's streak of 2,130 games.

CLEVELAND — Dennis Eckersley was standing behind the batting cage when Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera, the two Yankees who eclipsed a record that Eckersley shared with Bob Welch, sauntered out of the dugout Saturday.

The mark is the lowest first-class score by the county, eclipsing a record that has stood for 112 years, the lowest in the County Championship since 1983 (a game also played at Chelmsford, but with Essex the executioners rather than victims on that occasion and Surrey the side bowled out for 14) and the sixth lowest ever in England's domestic first-class competition.

Eventually Black Panther took the ultimate prize -- it became the highest grossing movie ever at the North American box office, making a cool $665 million dollars and eclipsing a record previously set by the (overwhelmingly white) Titanic.

For the Yankees, 3.6 million fans would eclipse a team record of 3.29 million set in 1999.

Arsenal recorded an away win at Wolverhampton Wanderers on 7 February 2004 – their 24th league match, which eclipsed a club record set by George Graham's team of 1990 91.

Steve Smith eclipsed a Don Bradman record as Australia chased victory over India in the fourth Test in Sydney.

ABOARD THE ANNE, off New Jersey — After 1,152 days meandering the world's oceans on a 70-foot schooner he built himself, Reid Stowe plans to sail into New York on Thursday afternoon and claim the record for the longest sea voyage in history — eclipsing a century-old record by almost three months.

Chambers was finally stumped after giving spinner David Wainwright the charge, having shared in a stand that, although well short of the county best of 233, set by Jonathan Trott and Jeetan Patel against Yorkshire at Edgbaston in 2009, was still the best by any ninth-wicket pair on the County Ground at Derby, eclipsing a 78-year-old record.