How to Use bell jar in a Sentence

bell jar

noun

• To easily fill, hold the cloche or bell jar upside down and fill with pumpkins.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
• But Beijing’s vow to keep the city in a political bell jar for 50 years has been shattered.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2022
• But somebody had just put a bell jar between me and them, and that feeling of being free from them was profound.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• Bird and Feather Templates A bell jar gives a no-carve pumpkin, with bird and feather designs, the star treatment.
  — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 23 June 2020
• The sticks that protrude are enclosed in glass bell jars, a cheeky allusion to taxidermy displays.
  — Catherine Romano, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
• First, Scotch is combined with Chartreuse; then the mixture is sprayed with a peaty tincture and placed under a bell jar, which a bartender proceeds to pump full of wood smoke.
  — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2018
• But where other celebrities rarely take stock of their actions while trapped in the bell jar, Heidi revisits those moments out loud.
  — Anne T. Donahue, Marie Claire, 8 July 2019
• There are bell jars in the middle of every table, with dollar bills stuffed in, and everybody’s speaking English.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• The décor was full of surprises, from cracked open pomegranates, to apples under bell jars, with gorgeous vintage velvet sofas and pillows throughout the space, and trees lining the room.
  — Belathée, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Oct. 2019
• Kristen made everything better, her confidence like a bell jar of security in a strange and gnarled world.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 26 July 2021
• On Tuesday, two men at a museum in the Netherlands lifted a black sheet off a table to reveal a cantaloupe-size globe of overcooked meat perspiring under a bell jar.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2023
• The dinner tablescapes were covered in iridescent cellophane, and had cotton-candy-color blooms enclosed in Beauty and the Beast–style bell jars.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2019
• The problem is the dramatic vacuum, or suffocating bell jar, in which her performance plays out.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2021
• But after a few minutes in a bell jar suffused with anesthetic fumes, Mimosa becomes unresponsive.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
• Again: What works within the humid environment under a bell jar or inside a narrow-mouthed lab flask is quite different from what flourishes in an open bowl or an uncovered fish tank.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• What follows is our heroine’s recounting of her gradual descent into the knowledge of the truth of her new husband: that his castle is a bell jar of evil; that she hasn’t been courted by a gentleman but preyed upon by a monster.
  — Donal Ryan, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
• While conversations rarely penetrate the bell jar of my self-containment, inventive forms of caregiving do.
  — Susan Gubar, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 May 2018
• Eileen Roscina Richardson applies the ancient art of natural tree shaping to fungi, using light exposure to make her plants grow in zig-zag patterns, and then places them under bell jars for public inspection.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 19 Nov. 2019
• In another, new lab, superfluid helium simmered inside a silvered bell jar.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024