sterile

[US]/ˈsteraɪl/
[UK]/ˈsterəl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. unproductive; barren; infertile; aseptic; dull

Phrases & Collocations

sterile environment

sterile equipment

sterile technique

male sterile line

sterile water

Example Sentences

A mule is a sterile animal.

a sterile needle and syringes.

a sterile operating area; sterile instruments.

An operating theatre should be a sterile environment.

the increasingly sterile debate on constitutional reform

a sterile attempt to reach agreement

In the street corner also presented the treatment sterile sterile adlet which blots out the sky.

Male workers were made permanently sterile by this pesticide.

The farmers turned the sterile land into high fields.

piglets born into a sterile bubble.

the sterile goals of middle-class life.

This top fits over the bottle and keeps the teat sterile.

Their relationship had grown sterile over the years.

Maybe the stinko waters in Venice add up to the romance - it felt almost sterile &clinical here.

He would still listen to the spoken word, which fell sterile on the unheeding mother.

"We have a hard time finding these problems when pregnant women are in a distraction-free, sterile lab environment," says Cuttler.

By using phytotron, critical temperature and the thermo-sensitive phase of Pingxiang Dominant Genic Male Sterile Rice were studied under artificial conditions.

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