How to Use hermetically in a Sentence

hermetically

adverb
  • The case was hermetically sealed with a metal border and lead.
    Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • That room is hermetically sealed like a Chris Rock concert.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • 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
  • That fall, the team met in their offices in a midtown high-rise — a glass box that like most other glass boxes in the area was hermetically sealed.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The images aren’t only stripped of superfluities; they’re hermetically sealed off from anything that could impinge from offscreen, from the world at large.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • By this logic, their hermetically sealed, temperature-regulating house would be the womb.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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.
    Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • The gas was passed while shooting the upside-down car scene, which necessitated a rig in which Smith and Tommy Lee Jones had to be hermetically sealed.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • In practice, however, hermetically sealing a country off on short notice and for an extended period of time is nearly impossible.
    Kelley Lee, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The show’s world is simultaneously sprawling and weirdly hermetically sealed.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • People kept busy by cheering the occasional seagull that landed next to the chimney or by clapping, perhaps in the hope that those hermetically sealed inside the Sistine Chapel might hear their encouragement.
    Katie Primm, NBC news, 9 May 2025
  • To exist in a world where they are hermetically sealed as just a single shingle for ghost extermination is not genuine after a 40-year span of being a part of New York City’s story.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Unlike some of Dubai’s city centre skyscrapers, where rooms are hermetically sealed within glass and steel, every accommodation comes with its own spacious balcony for lounging and gazing at the sun setting over the sea or the city lighting up at dusk.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The way that the class system and the hierarchy seems like it was hermetically sealed on the trading floor was something that actually in London can be extrapolated out into media or social members clubs or politics.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2024
  • 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 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

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