Sentence examples for moon obscure from inspiring English sources

He lives just along the road from the house where, at midday on June 30 , 1954 he watched the moon obscure the sun and his mother-in-law's chickens rush into the henhouse, tuck their heads under their wings, and go to sleep.

A few thousand adventurers have paid astronomical sums to be on the "line of totality" of the only total solar eclipse of 2015, with a 50 50 chance of the skies being clear enough to let them witness the moon obscure the sun for 2 minutes, 28 seconds.

Darkness will fall during daytime in parts of Chile and Argentina as the moon obscures the sun.

As the moon obscured more and more of the sun, the sky darkened to a shimmering violet.

The ship will be in the Mozambique Channel when the moon obscures the sun for a precious 2 minutes 45 seconds.

The Blackhawks had their fourth line on the ice, the guys who score about as often as the moon obscures the sun.

A total solar eclipse made contact in Oregon just after 1 15 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, darkening skies as the moon obscured the sun and cast a long shadow across Earth.

Students in Amman, Jordan, above left, and a couple in Gandía in eastern Spain, above right, also took in the spectacle, in which the moon obscured the center of the sun but not its edges.

In a diptych of the inside of his eyes, the macula and optic nerves surrounded by blood vessels are transformed into romantic Photo-Secessionist-like dual images of a moon obscured by bare tree limbs.

What if the mind of an Alzheimer's victim is like the sun in eclipse, and the moon obscuring the sun like the sick brain?

Total solar eclipses are exceptional events and occur when the sun, moon and earth are in perfect alignment; with the moon obscuring the sun's light as seen from the earth.