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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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 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
• In my research on the medical history of electricity, vibrators appear alongside galvanic battery belts and quack electrotherapies as one of many quirky home cures of the early 20th century.
  — Kim Adams, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020
• Deren, whose coterie had expanded to include many in the downtown artistic beau monde, became a major socialite in bohemian circles, turning the couple’s apartment into a center of parties and gatherings, and her connections proved galvanic.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
• Mac, a galvanic performer who combines the otherworldly gender fluidity of Ziggy Stardust and the unstoppable razzle-dazzle of a post-modern Liza Minnelli, could easily stop traffic in these groves of academe with a simple change in headdress.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Corrosion usually happens when someone installs fancy aftermarket metal caps that develop a galvanic reaction, especially where salt is used to treat the roads.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 6 May 2017
• Unyielding, visceral, imaginative, and rendered with galvanic precision, the poems thunder along through gritty geographies of place and psyche, revealing the ruptures created by divides in both.
  — oregonlive, 6 Apr. 2022
• Conductor Gaffigan offered an intense, full-throated reading, with an emphasis on galvanic fortissimos, fiercely stated string playing and extreme dynamic contrasts.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• Under the galvanic direction of Grant Park’s principal conductor and artistic director, the performances carried enough strength and vitality to reduce a few errant notes and ensemble blemishes in the orchestral playing to inconsequentiality.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
• In 2012 a Pennsylvania chiropractor ran an advertisement containing patients’ enthusiastic reviews of an unproven technique known as galvanic skin measurement.
  — Lindsay Gellman, Wired, 17 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024