How to Use hermetically in a Sentence

hermetically

adverb

• For three years, Hong Kong was hermetically sealed from the world while being roiled by both the pandemic and political protests.
  — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2023
• Meanwhile, the hoop was hermetically sealed for the Heat.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
• What’s the deal with the coffee pods? Nespresso pods are made out of aluminum, and they’re hermetically sealed to keep the grounds inside fresh.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 29 June 2023
• The trays are hermetically sealed and easy to open, and the grain-free components can be used as food toppers with kibble or as meals on their own.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
• The sample’s volume is measured, an image of the sample is taken, and the tube is hermetically sealed.
  — Merrill Sherman, WSJ, 24 June 2021
• Hours had passed since the attack began, and West German security forces still hadn’t closed the village off hermetically.
  — Eldad Beck, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022
• The components have to be hermetically sealed to withstand the body’s moisture, and a transceiver — implanted in the chest to ferry data from brain to computer — is designed not to overheat.
  — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• Instead of coating the resistor with an epoxy, it’s hermetically sealed in a lustrous little glass envelope.
  — Eric Schlaepfer, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
• Lastly, the robotic arm will move the bit-and-tube combination back into bit carousel and Adaptive Caching Assembly where the sample will be photographed, measured for volume, hermetically sealed and stored.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 22 July 2021
• The new season feels busier yet less mad than its predecessor; the action doesn’t stick hermetically to the hotel, the bigger canvas amplifying the series’ touristic appeal.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• Some of the features also seem aimed at making the experience of wearing a headset feel less like being hermetically sealed in a digital silo by yourself.
  — WIRED, 7 Jan. 2023
• The cake slowly absorbs the alcohol during the aging process, which prevents spoilage, then it’s covered in jam and marzipan before being hermetically sealed in royal icing.
  — Claire Saffitz, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• They are hermetically sealed, contain diesel or electric engines, and are either self-propelled or carry people who help ensure the drugs get to their destinations.
  — Karol Suárez, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2021
• Not for the first time, the demonstrative cleverness of his storytelling can seem too precise, too hermetically sealed and engineered, for a sense of raw collective devastation to fully take hold.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• Some people think politics and art should be kept hermetically separate; others can’t look at even the most facile work without forcing some political meaning on it.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 May 2022
• The Neuralink 1 implant actually includes multiple chips, a wireless battery and other electronics hermetically sealed within a device about the size of a large coin.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
• The show’s world is simultaneously sprawling and weirdly hermetically sealed.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
• The Concept 30 tweeter is hermetically sealed and mechanically isolated from its supporting baffle.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
• Particularly in postwar America, psychoanalysis had been hermetically focussed on the private, the interior—but wasn’t the interior indelibly marked by the exterior world?
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024