Seal

The seals in the harbor looked better than they smelled.

They're organizing a protest against sealing.

She [Nature] carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.

The front of the podium bore the presidential seal.

So the matter rested until the Cranbrook & Paddock Wood Company was incorporated on August 8, 1877, appropriately displaying a bunch of hops on its seal, for these had become the principal cash crop in the area.

The result was declared invalid, as the seal on the meter had been broken.

Seals were placed on the papal apartment on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace and on the apartment on the second floor of the Casa Santa Marta, where Pope Francis lived.

Her clothes always had her mom's seal of approval.

The canister is leaking. I think the main seal needs to be replaced.

Close the lid tightly to get a good seal.

to seal weights and measures

to seal silverware

The cover is sealed. If anyone tries to open it, we'll know about it.

The border has been sealed until the fugitives are found.

I've sealed the bottle to keep the contents fresh.

Seal up your lips, and give no words but "mum".

I've sealed the documents in this envelope.

After thinking for half an hour, the champion sealed his move.

The last-minute goal sealed United’s win.

seal one's destiny

seal someone's fate

seal the job

England's first-half display contained much to admire but it was a sign of their wastefulness in front of goal that it took the injury-time intervention from Kane to seal victory.

Sealed to this wall by their rims were cazuelas ( earthenware bowls).

After testing is concluded and it has been determined that the drilled well is to be completed as a producing or fluid-injection well, or that operations are to be suspended, the final string of casing is placed in the well and sealed to the penetrated formation with cement.

The PVC was then sealed to the plastered foundation with a 3-inch-wide band of PVC-to-concrete adhesive applied above the Thiokol.

The blowing device consists of a glass vessel with a hollow perforated cylinder sealed to its base, and two side tubes sealed at opposite ends of the vessel.

to seal a drainpipe with water

When the silicone rubber has set the plaster pieces are replaced, followed by the lid, which is sealed to the mother-mould with plaster and bandage as previously described.

If a man once married desires a second helpmate […] she is sealed to him under the solemn sanction of the church.

She can be sealed to this other man and still remain with her first husband; and the Mormons believe that all her children will belong to the man to whom she is sealed.

Next, I was sealed to my fourteenth wife, Emeline Vaughn. In 1851, I was sealed to my fifteenth wife, Mary Lear Groves. In 1856, I was sealed to my sixteenth wife, Mary Ann Williams.

In temples of God, families are eternally sealed through this power. Couples who enter into the Covenant of Eternal Marriage are sealed together, meaning that their union on earth is also valid in the heavens, rather than ending at death. Children who are subsequently born to them or later sealed to them are theirs for eternity… In addition, temple sealings are performed by proxy for the dead, with spouses sealed to each other and children sealed to parents.

What was that office, or work, to which his Father sealed him? I answer, more generally, he was sealed to the whole work of mediation for us, thereby to recover and save all the elect, whom the Father had given him:

Perfectly so, I tell thee, of the sealed people who have come in through unbelief, pretending themselves to be children of the kingdom, that they are sealed to be heirs of the promise, but have come in as thieves and robbers.

Let us all strive to get ourselves sealed to redemption, seeing God doth seal those whom he will deliver in that great day; if we be not in this number, we shall not escape damnation.

Thus these representatives of humanity are first sealed to help with the final work of salvation.

Seal the meat and continue frying until nicely browned.

Enough people connected to the SEALs and the bin Laden mission have confirmed for me that the Shooter was the "number two" behind the raid's point man going up the stairs to bin Laden's third-floor residence […] The point man is the only one besides the Shooter who could verify the kill shots firsthand, and he did just that to another SEAL I spoke with.