HERMETIC in a Sentence

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For HERMETIC, below is one of 7 sentences:
If the window had been open or even ajar, I should think nothing of it; but, no--all was hermetically sealed.

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 Meanings and Examples of HERMETIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hermetic
 a.  sealed by fusion so as to be airtight
Classic Sentence:
1  He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening hermetically again.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
2  They had found in the cellar fifteen full bottles hermetically sealed.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO...
3  If the window had been open or even ajar, I should think nothing of it; but, no--all was hermetically sealed.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 23 THE RENDEZVOUS
4  He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
5  This done, the hatches are replaced, and hermetically closed, like a closet walled up.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up.
6  I found it in a sealed jar, that by chance, I suppose, had been really hermetically sealed.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence:
1  After you sterilize the bandages, place them in a container and seal it with a hermetic seal to protect them from contamination by airborne bacteria.