hermetically
so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
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How to use hermetically in a sentence
Most buildings—homes and offices alike—are so hermetically sealed that they require air conditioning, making them impossible to cool without it.
On the internet, you could create a hermetically sealed bubble of people just like you.
‘The Office As We Know It Is Over,’ Says Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky | Belinda Luscombe | May 8, 2022 | TimeA grandmother, desperate to protect her family from a poisonous, airborne disease, locks everyone up in a hermetically-sealed flat.
How China's Fiction Writers Have Learned to Survive Its Politics | Megan Walsh | February 10, 2022 | TimeWe have hermetically sealed our choices in a capsule under the supervision of someone whose relative works for Pricewaterhouse.
Style Conversational Week 1456: A matter of taste (even for the tasteless) | Pat Myers | September 30, 2021 | Washington PostThe entire production process happens in a hermetically sealed system, with products from each stage transported to the next via a network of transparent plastic tubing.
Exclusive: Inside the Facilities Making the World's Most Prevalent COVID-19 Vaccine | Aryn Baker/Marburg, Germany | April 19, 2021 | Time
For JPMorgan Chase, the Bernie Madoff stench can no longer be hermetically sealed.
JPMorgan and Madoff: Will the Scandal Sink Jamie Dimon? | Allan Dodds Frank | February 3, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThen quite suddenly, the hermetically sealed bubble around Castro was punctured.
The debates certainly would never have been this hermetically sealed and antiseptic.
McCain's Brilliant Campaign, Four Years Too Late | Caroline Marks | November 4, 2008 | THE DAILY BEASTThese graves were once all hermetically sealed by slabs of marble, or tiles of terra cotta.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowThe curtains were hermetically closed, and for a moment the external world did not exist for us.
Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) | Alexandre Dumas, filsThe pictures thus hermetically sealed are indestructible so long as the glass is not fractured.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowIt was discovered by chance in 1858, having been until then hermetically sealed by a mass of limestone breccia.
Th' shelf shud thin be nailed to th' wall iliven feet fr'm th' flure an' hermetically sealed.
Mr. Dooley Says | Finley Dunne
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