antiseptic

Example Sentences

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He’s about to schlep through a 162-game season with them: plane trips, batting practice, 1 a.m. room service steak dinners in antiseptic luxury hotels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

But these once surefire hits have never been so limp and antiseptic.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

Kulumbegashvili’s realist style — the writer-director filmed actual births — emphasizes antiseptic hospital hallways and the cold procedural quality of Nina’s work.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025

They are not like a hospital: No freezing temperatures, no incessant beeping, no antiseptic odor smell.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2025

The distinctive antiseptic tang in the air let me know that I was somewhere in the Medica.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss