sterilize

Example Sentences

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Hospitals use it to sterilize medical devices, and some municipalities use low levels to treat public water supplies.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2025

“In this case, it is possible that Cesium-137 food irradiators were used in the processing facilities which are being used to sterilize food and instruments,” Vetter said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2025

Scientists in the 1950s discovered a technique that uses radiation to sterilize male parasitic flies.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025

I told her to try to sterilize the water, and she responded that she does not have enough cooking gas and cannot heat water more than once a day.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2024

I imagine each book traveling on a white conveyor belt toward rectangular white stations where robotic white arms dust, scrape, spray, and otherwise sterilize it until it’s finally deemed clean enough to come to me.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon