hermetically sealed

Example Sentences

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“We have to remind ourselves that we can’t exist in these frictionless, hermetically sealed bubbles,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

"They all need feeding, they're not totally hermetically sealed off from the world," says Stephen Bullivant, professor of theology and the sociology of religion at St Mary's University, Twickenham.

From BBC • May 1, 2025

Yet, selected proteins can pass because the barrier is not hermetically sealed.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2024

There is no hermetically sealed legal sphere that stands apart from the rest of existence; that's a dangerous fantasy that can — and does — justify unspeakable horrors.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2023

“Sounds like it’s either that, or put him into a hermetically sealed box for the next four or five years—I’m joking, I’m joking!”

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix