Sentences with 'eclipsed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word eclipsed and other words derived from it.
• « The United States eclipsed Europe as the leading manufacturing power and the main source of exports in a surprisingly short period - from about 1870 to the early 20th century - driving Europeans to sometimes hysterical levels of fear of becoming economically obsolete. »
• « In the United States and Western Europe, the Great Depression would last for a decade (1929 - 1939), at which point the Second World War eclipsed the economic difficulties as the great crisis of the century. »
• « Meanwhile, in the east, the city of Gao grew increasingly strong under the leadership of Sonni Ali and soon eclipsed the power of Mali. »
• « Timbuktu sought Ali's help in repelling the Tuareg from the north. By 1500, however, Songhay's Tuareg empire had eclipsed Mali, where weak and ineffective leadership prevailed. »