sterilize

Example Sentences

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San Bernardino County officials have made new deals with a local nonprofit to help sterilize and relocate wild donkeys.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025

We cannot even think much about how to sterilize water before drinking it, because there is no cooking gas and no wood to light a fire.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2024

While opening more facilities in California would help, the program uses cobalt to produce high-energy radiation to sterilize the bugs — which is expensive and requires the lab to take extensive safety and security measures.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024

Ultimately, it’s up to retailers to remove affected products from the case and sterilize equipment properly.

From Salon • Aug. 15, 2024

If we wish on Earth to examine samples of Martian soil for microbes, we must, of course, not sterilize the samples beforehand.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan