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hermetic

adjective as in airtight

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Example Sentences

It bakes, it steams, it smokes, and, because all the dirt above it creates a kind of hermetic seal, it almost pressure-cooks, too.

I fell prey to several episodes of anxiety on board that hermetic capsule.

Players and staff entered into a hermetic environment, shuttling between stadiums, training facilities and their homes.

While teams settle into a hermetic routine, fans are hard at work on their brackets.

The documents are extremely hermetic, using niche biotech-technical language.

We love to laugh at Kim and Company because it distracts our souls from the horrific reality of their hermetic regime.

And Demme, by barely indicating the visual presence of the audience until the end, intensifies the closed-off, hermetic feeling.

The government of Colombia decided to loan the 28,000 square meter fixer-upper to a fraternity of hermetic Benedictine monks.

Here's how: The Secret Knowledge is a work of almost hermetic abstraction.

Forsaking his safely hermetic life, William leaves Molly with neighbors to meet with a rebel group.

This work of the learned Ben Hassan was written upon the subject of hermetic philosophy.

A few years ago, in a conversation with a shop-clerk, I happened to mention a lead coffin made hermetic with solder.

The hermetic philosopher required only the materials, and time, to perform his golden operations.

“The priests must be hiding the Hermetic wisdom on purpose,” said Lucius.

It is necessary to wet the skin in order that it may work properly and form a hermetic valve.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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