How to Use sterile in a Sentence

sterile

adjective

• Kent was calling the games from a sterile studio, away from the games.
  — oregonlive, 21 June 2021
• Bathrooms, by design, can feel like very sterile places.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 17 June 2021
• As for aesthetics, a normal forest is not complete without all stages of tree life and looks sterile without them.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 18 June 2021
• After all, pollen and plant debris are not always be conducive to a sterile environment.
  — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 29 May 2021
• But the longtime teacher recognized that something was missing from the sterile classroom.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
• The company’s salmon are also female and sterile, preventing them from mating.
  — Casey Smith, Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2021
• Using sterile syringes can reduce the risk of getting or transmitting infections.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 14 June 2021
• There is a significant percentage of people who adamantly want to remain fully remote and would quit if forced back to a sterile office setting.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• Some of us are even looking forward to returning to our offices and escaping the sterile, one-dimensional jail cell of screens and video conferences.
  — William Falk, The Week, 31 May 2021
• At the same time, modern life depends on plastics, which are vital for everything from sterile single-use medical equipment to the modern transportation of goods around the globe.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 24 Sep. 2024
• Computing figures for average life expectancy at birth may seem like a sterile statistical exercise.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2021
• Services span from maintaining sterile environments to ensuring compliance with health codes.
  — Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
• But few, if any, citizens believe in the party’s sterile ideology and anachronistic cult of personality.
  — Andrew Nathan, WSJ, 25 June 2021
• The band wanted to be sure the new record was not sterile.
  — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The woman handed the couple some sterile gauze and told them to keep pressure applied to the wound, Zach said.
  — oregonlive, 25 July 2023
• The agency cannot order a recall of wipes - sterile or not.
  — John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024