How to Use sterile in a Sentence

sterile

adjective
  • The band wanted to be sure the new record was not sterile.
    Eric Fuller, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • So the whole room looks very sterile, which is not my vibe.
    Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 29 June 2020
  • At Canyon Creek, the sterile rooms were quiet and still.
    Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Clean the area: Use a sterile saline wound wash spray twice per day.
    Madeleine Burry, Health, 1 Feb. 2024
  • They are meant to feel less sterile and more like home.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 12 May 2022
  • After Hours, the mega-star’s most sterile project to date.
    Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Kent was calling the games from a sterile studio, away from the games.
    oregonlive, 21 June 2021
  • The process begins with sterile source tissue, a small piece of a leaf, fruit, root, or shoot.
    Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The mix should be sterile and hold roughly an equal amount of air and moisture.
    Benjamin Whitacre, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2022
  • Dip the end of the shoot in rooting hormone and place it in a pot with moist, sterile potting soil.
    oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Some of the women in the neighborhood were sterile, too.
    Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Urine is sterile; the sink gets washed out afterward; and my hands are clean.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The piercer will first clean and prep your skin, using a sterile, single-use pen to mark the spot of your piercing.
    Madeleine Burry, Health, 1 Feb. 2024
  • And who would know the best about a sterile environment?
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2022
  • At the end of this very long, sterile block is one other person, a young woman.
    Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • In a sterile hood, Gao uses a hole puncher to remove a tiny chunk of a leaf or stem.
    Emily Cataneo, Wired, 7 Nov. 2020
  • That was key to the slog through long days, tight deadlines and an Olympics that often felt sterile and joyless.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Kevitch thought dating apps on the whole were too sterile.
    Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The woman handed the couple some sterile gauze and told them to keep pressure applied to the wound, Zach said.
    oregonlive, 25 July 2023
  • So farmers plant sterile triploid plants along with diploid plants.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2020
  • The agency cannot order a recall of wipes - sterile or not.
    John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Yet a sterile neutrino would be the ghostliest of them all.
    William Charles Louis, Scientific American, 1 July 2020
  • Prescott was treated with sterile dressing on site before surgery to wash the wound and fix the fracture.
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
  • If part of the bone protrudes, apply pressure and cover with a clean, sterile gauze.
    Stacey Colino, Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The skin grafts, which are produced in sheets, keep wounds sterile and promote healing.
    Andy Peters, ajc, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Each pill has been made under the most sterile, precise, and strictest standards.
    Michael Carroll, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • If there was no sperm in his semen, he would’ve been deemed sterile in a prior lifetime.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2021
  • Its planes of gray and black feel hard-edged and sterile, which is to say entirely at odds with the emotional warmth of the food coming out of the kitchen.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2024
  • That’s the vision of this ‘00s masterpiece, a film about a future in which all women have become sterile, meaning there will be no next generation.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
  • How did lush rainforest colonize the sterile land so quickly?
    Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025

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