Outlying communities began to depopulate and, by the end of the century, the buildings in the central canyon had been neatly sealed and abandoned.

Commissioner," said one of his team, presenting the fragile jeweled footwear, now neatly sealed in clear plastic.

He'd given me four painkillers, neatly sealed in a small white envelope.

Every nerve ending of the brain neatly sealed.

Mr. Hiner has neatly sealed off the asbestos contamination from the corporate balance sheet.

Her other arm was sealed so neatly that it seemed proper for her wrist to terminate in a rounded end, as though the heel of her foot.

One end had a lid, neatly sealed with red wax.

Leftovers can be sealed neatly in the clamshell.

The brown paper wrapping had been neatly sealed with black electrician's tape of the kind that can be bought in the hardware section of a supermarket.

Dubauer, smooth cheek now neatly sealed with a discreet dab of surgical glue, arrived promptly, and stared in some alarm at their new quaddie military escort.