How to use "total" in a sentence

A total of seventeen poor people lived in number 29, which was a crowded, busy place

Champmathieu went home in a state of total confusion, thinking all men mad and understanding nothing of what had happened.

Charles X, who had become king in 1824, believed that he had total power over the French people

Ahead of him lay total darkness, but he had to go on

He walked in total darkness, the silence broken occasionally by the thunder of gun carriages and horses racing along the streets of Paris far above his head.

Finally, the group of men moved off along another passage, and Valjean was left in total darkness once again.

He risked his life to save a dying man, and why? He was a total stranger

They aren't being sent by a total stranger or by Michael

Destruction had never been so total in the history of war

For a long time my brother stared out of the window in total surprise, watching the policeman banging at door after door

She was number one for five years in total (1967- 1968, 1971-1972 and 1974).