sterile

Example Sentences

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Meticulous in his habits and wedded to his routines, George loves the sterile formality of the police interview room, where, unmoved by the emotional outbursts of others, he patiently sifts fact from fabrication.

From The Wall Street Journal

MIT is an enclave even within the hermetic world of Cambridge academia—a place where complex, bleeding-edge ideas spawn from sterile labs and filthy dorm rooms.

From The Wall Street Journal

When returning to the office became possible, she wasn’t enthusiastic about the 30- to 40-minute commute to a sterile suburban office park.

From New York Times

Although “Succession” was set and shot in beautiful spaces, those spaces were typically rendered airless, sterile.

From New York Times

Hospitals are scouring shelves for supplies of a drug that reverses lead poisoning and for a sterile fluid needed to stop the heart for bypass surgery.

From New York Times