How to Use galvanic in a Sentence

galvanic

adjective

• Her performance had a galvanic effect on the audience.
• The color was added by galvanic plating (a type of electroplating), one of the few things Christian cannot do himself.
  — Mark Cho, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2021
• The award-winning blues singer-songwriter is also a galvanic guitarist on both electric and lap steel.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• The Navy has systems for dealing with galvanic corrosion, but did not include them in Independence‘s design.
  — David Axe, WIRED, 5 July 2011
• What this means is that removing galvanic isolation won’t pose a shock hazard.
  — Wally Rippel, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2025
• Less-expensive versions use galvanic timed release, metal gadgets that dissolve in water after a set amount of time and then release a buoy that brings the line to the surface.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021
• In the course of a long, prolific, and galvanic career, Ellroy has revisited the same scenes, the same characters, killing them off, reviving them.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Richards says that iron and steel wrecks will corrode faster in salt water because the saline conditions create galvanic corrosion.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2023
• The gold dial is hand-engraved in a honeycomb pattern and then finished with a dramatic blue galvanic treatment.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2021
• Some crucial characters feel more like symbols than people and the choral interludes, while galvanic in their own right, never feel married to the narrative.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
• Those include red light masks for face, neck and eye; a 4-in-1 massage wand that also incorporates heat, massage and galvanic current; a miniature red light for travel, and a red-and-blue light tool to spot treat acne.
  — James Manso, WWD, 9 Oct. 2024
• Pax, the eponymous fox of Sara Pennypacker’s new novel, is built on the model of Hughes’s cub, half wild and half domesticated, a galvanic presence fit to join the ranks of fiction’s great foxes.
  — Katherine Rundell, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2016
• But also, thanks to Cate Blanchett’s galvanic performance and Todd Field’s ruthlessly precise direction, there is.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• Blend method: This method combines galvanic electrolysis and thermolysis and is often the least painful option.
  — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 13 Dec. 2024
• The red light, galvanic currents, massaging vibrations, and warming technologies basically do all of the work for you.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
• This portable skincare wand is compact enough to take with you and use on the go, enhancing the skin with red light therapy, galvanic currents, facial massage, and therapeutic warmth.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2025
• For the follow-up to last year’s galvanic sets, Morrison returns with decidedly smaller forces, leading a quartet.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• The lightweight, handheld device combines red light therapy, galvanic current, facial massage, and therapeutic warmth all in an easy-to-use tool that only needs three minutes to work.
  — Jennifer Chan, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
• Saltwater hitting the statue’s iron skeleton and copper skin set up a galvanic cell, Ramirez says, an electrochemical reaction that caused the copper to corrode.
  — Kate Greene, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
• The moment at lunchtime when @george_osborne tweets his paper’s front page, its lead editorial, and a frequently savage political cartoon is now a galvanic juncture in the day’s news cycle.
  — Ed Caesar, Esquire, 15 Sep. 2017
• That caused economic carnage—but also gave digital payments a galvanic boost.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2019
• The slim device incorporates red LED light therapy, massage benefits, warmth, and galvanic currents—low-voltage, pulsing electric currents thought to improve skin build-up and texture—to soothe and depuff your skin.
  — Isabella Ubaldi, Health, 20 Mar. 2024
• The device's red light therapy minimizes the look of fine lines and wrinkles, the light vibrations massage the skin for an awake appearance, the warm temperature de-puffs, and galvanic currents increase the effectiveness of skincare products.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
• The boss, Clyde (the galvanic Tamberla Perry), is a larger-than-life, terrifyingly glamorous villainess in an ever-changing carapace of Lycra and leather haute couture.
  — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• Marinate in the mineral biophilic pool surrounded by hundreds of plants, or book a restorative acupuncture session, a lymph-draining massage, or a cheekbone-sculpting galvanic facial.
  — April Long, Town & Country, 24 May 2021
• Halina Dyrschka’s 2019 film Beyond the Visible, the first feature-length documentary about af Klint, explores the breadth and depth of her legacy from a revisionist art history perspective that’s nothing short of galvanic.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2023
• Celebrating his seventy-fifth birthday at the helm of a galvanic quartet, Valdés will demonstrate an undiminished ability to fuse Afro-Caribbean rhythms and Stateside hard bop with joyous abandon.
  — The New Yorker, 9 May 2014
• The miniature pacemaker is composed of two electrodes that, when in contact with the body’s fluids, form a type of battery called a galvanic cell, which converts chemical energy into electrical energy used to stimulate the heartbeat.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
• The chevron-like pattern on the dial was created using three different dial-making techniques: lacquer, laser and an electroplating/galvanic treatment.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 5 May 2021
• Split between streaming and live TV, viewers at home were treated to galvanic performances (hello, Jennifer Holliday!) and moving speeches.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Sep. 2021