sterile
Example Sentences
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“Perhaps I cleaned too much. I worry about such things. What if I’ve made the place completely sterile? Shouldn’t a home have a bit of bacteria lying about?”
From Literature
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.
Her sock was hardly sterile, but at least it would soothe the pain and cover the welt.
From Literature
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