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

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

An experimental program seeks to protect California almond trees from a pesky moth by using X-rays to sterilize the insects.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2024

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

From Salon • Aug. 15, 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