How to use sterilize in a sentence

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• Ma was taking a sterilized needle to a whitehead on my chin.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 151. From the entry whitehead
• She expertly cleaned and sterilized the gaping holes in the gynoid’s chest and back.2000, Thomas J. Sanders, God's Fire, Trafford Publishing, page 58. From the entry gynoid
• The cups are nested, sealed in polyethylene bags, and sterilized using ethylene oxide methods.1999, M. Shafiur Rahman, editor, Handbook of Food Preservation, New York, N.Y.; Basel: Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, page 142. From the entry denest
• Sterilized food is filled through the equipment into cups that have been denested into holders.1999, M. Shafiur Rahman, editor, Handbook of Food Preservation, New York, N.Y.; Basel: Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, page 142. From the entry denest
• There, captured in the wonderglow, sterilized and motionless, were all the things that had ravaged him and finally left him lame.2019, James Webb, Fields of Fire. From the entry wonderglow
• For traveling or emergencies you can get sterilizing tablets to dissolve in water, but they make things taste nasty and chloriney.2004, Kaz Cooke, Kid Wrangling: Real Guide to Caring for Babies, Toddlers, and Little Kids, page 113. From the entry chloriney
• The use of sterilized compost when planting should minimize problems with weeds, at least for the first years.1992, Christopher Brickell, editor, The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening, London: BCA by arrangement with Dorling…. From the entry first year
• The nearest I could come to describing it was that the colour was like that seen in ultraviolet sterilizing cupboards in the medical world.2013, Martin Mobberley, It Came From Outer Space Wearing an RAF Blazer!, page 391. From the entry unlunar
• After several rinses in fresh culture medium the cardiae were transferred to sterilized vessels with culture medium which had been sterilized by filtration.2012, Werner Peters, Peritrophic Membranes. From the entry cardia
• I have explained the ludic fallacy with the casino story, and have insisted that the sterilized randomness of games does not resemble randomness in real life.2007, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, page 286. From the entry ludic fallacy
• Their present policy of sterilizing monetary inflows is creating imbalances which suggests, sooner rather than later, they're going to have to, for stability purposes, move their currency.2006, B. Brown, What Drives Global Capital Flows?, page 174. From the entry sooner rather than later
• Sterilizing powder for soaking nannies; and about two dozen cloth nappy liners or several packets of disposable liners (to throw away after bowel movements or wash when wet only).1986, Carol Howland, The First-time Parent's Survival Guide, Thorsons Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry cloth nappy

Meaning of sterilize

1. verb To deprive of the ability to procreate.
2. verb To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
3. verb To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and spores on a surface, in a fluid, or contained in a compound, such as culture media or a medical product.

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How do you use sterilize in a sentence?

Sterilize is used as a verb. For example: “If monogeny is determined exclusively by a cytoplasmic factor, then it is easy to see that the factor will either die out (if it causes arrhenogeny) or will become fixed and thereby sterilize the population (if it causes thelygeny).”

What is a short sentence with sterilize?

“Ma was taking a sterilized needle to a whitehead on my chin.”

What does sterilize mean?

Sterilize means to deprive of the ability to procreate.