sterile

Example Sentences

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To prevent contamination, ice samples were sealed in sterile bags and transported in frozen conditions back to the laboratory.

From Science Daily

Reality, however, isn’t as sterile as today’s popular fiction.

From Salon

To see only “the West Bank” is to view a sterile geopolitical entity: a narrow strip of land defined by 20th-century skirmishes and modern conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her sock was hardly sterile, but at least it would soothe the pain and cover the welt.

From Literature

Landau takes out her phone to show me pictures of Rosta and Hunter leaning in close to each other, displaying an intimacy that’s not typical for a sterile meeting room.

From Los Angeles Times