How to Use bell jar in a Sentence
bell jar
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To easily fill, hold the cloche or bell jar upside down and fill with pumpkins.
—Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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The sticks that protrude are enclosed in glass bell jars, a cheeky allusion to taxidermy displays.
—Catherine Romano, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The problem is the dramatic vacuum, or suffocating bell jar, in which her performance plays out.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2021
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But after a few minutes in a bell jar suffused with anesthetic fumes, Mimosa becomes unresponsive.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
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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
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While conversations rarely penetrate the bell jar of my self-containment, inventive forms of caregiving do.
—Susan Gubar, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 May 2018
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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
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In another, new lab, superfluid helium simmered inside a silvered bell jar.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
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