How to Use galvanic in a Sentence

galvanic

adjective
  • Her performance had a galvanic effect on the audience.
  • What this means is that removing galvanic isolation won’t pose a shock hazard.
    — Wally Rippel, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The award-winning blues singer-songwriter is also a galvanic guitarist on both electric and lap steel.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Richards says that iron and steel wrecks will corrode faster in salt water because the saline conditions create galvanic corrosion.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The color was added by galvanic plating (a type of electroplating), one of the few things Christian cannot do himself.
    — Mark Cho, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The dial is then carefully domed and given a galvanic coat of gold, before translucent purple lacquer is applied by hand and fired in a kiln.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 May 2026
  • The gold dial is hand-engraved in a honeycomb pattern and then finished with a dramatic blue galvanic treatment.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2021
  • That caused economic carnage—but also gave digital payments a galvanic boost.
    — The Economist, 6 June 2019
  • The Navy has systems for dealing with galvanic corrosion, but did not include them in Independence‘s design.
    — David Axe, WIRED, 5 July 2011
  • Their slender, galvanic black frames display this elegant circular groove pattern.
    — Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Some crucial characters feel more like symbols than people and the choral interludes, while galvanic in their own right, never feel married to the narrative.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
  • Less-expensive versions use galvanic timed release, metal gadgets that dissolve in water after a set amount of time and then release a buoy that brings the line to the surface.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The red light, galvanic currents, massaging vibrations, and warming technologies basically do all of the work for you.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • For the follow-up to last year’s galvanic sets, Morrison returns with decidedly smaller forces, leading a quartet.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Removing galvanic isolation could simplify chargers from four power-conversion stages to just one.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2025
  • In the course of a long, prolific, and galvanic career, Ellroy has revisited the same scenes, the same characters, killing them off, reviving them.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The galvanic silver dial has been designed to ensure optimal readability.
    — Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • This portable skincare wand is compact enough to take with you and use on the go, enhancing the skin with red light therapy, galvanic currents, facial massage, and therapeutic warmth.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The lightweight, handheld device combines red light therapy, galvanic current, facial massage, and therapeutic warmth all in an easy-to-use tool that only needs three minutes to work.
    — Jennifer Chan, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The moment at lunchtime when @george_osborne tweets his paper’s front page, its lead editorial, and a frequently savage political cartoon is now a galvanic juncture in the day’s news cycle.
    — Ed Caesar, Esquire, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Saltwater hitting the statue’s iron skeleton and copper skin set up a galvanic cell, Ramirez says, an electrochemical reaction that caused the copper to corrode.
    — Kate Greene, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
  • One of our favorite beauty tools, this device combines four technologies into one—red light therapy, galvanic current, facial massage, and therapeutic warmth.
    — Iman Balagam, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But also, thanks to Cate Blanchett’s galvanic performance and Todd Field’s ruthlessly precise direction, there is.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Marinate in the mineral biophilic pool surrounded by hundreds of plants, or book a restorative acupuncture session, a lymph-draining massage, or a cheekbone-sculpting galvanic facial.
    — April Long, Town & Country, 24 May 2021
  • Those include red light masks for face, neck and eye; a 4-in-1 massage wand that also incorporates heat, massage and galvanic current; a miniature red light for travel, and a red-and-blue light tool to spot treat acne.
    — James Manso, WWD, 9 Oct. 2024
  • This hypothesis was inspired by the object’s design and materials, which are conducive to creating a galvanic reaction when an acidic or electrolytic solution is added.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2024
  • This powerful skin care device combines red light therapy, galvanic current, facial massage and therapeutic warmth to treat various skin concerns, including fine lines, puffiness and dark circles.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Every step, regardless of the protocol, bring forth a combination of aromatherapy, lymphatic and full body massages, galvanic, steam, and thalasso therapy.
    — Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The most galvanic ingredient was her attitude, her seemingly natural disregard for the norms that effectively cowed everyone else, including the people who enforced them.
    — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Pax, the eponymous fox of Sara Pennypacker’s new novel, is built on the model of Hughes’s cub, half wild and half domesticated, a galvanic presence fit to join the ranks of fiction’s great foxes.
    — Katherine Rundell, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2016

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