Explore Sterilize through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like sterilise or disinfect. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Sterilize in a sentence
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Sterilize meaning
- To deprive of the ability to procreate.
- To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
- 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.
Synonyms of Sterilize
Using Sterilize
- The main meaning on this page is: To deprive of the ability to procreate. | To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable. | 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.
- Useful related words include: sterilise, disinfect, desex, unsex.
- In the example corpus, sterilize often appears in combinations such as: to sterilize, sterilize the, sterilize it.
Context around Sterilize
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sterilize
- In this selection, "sterilize" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, basically, anyone, drinking and people stand out and add context to how "sterilize" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include autoclave to sterilize instruments more and clamps and sterilize everything. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sterilize" sits close to words such as ablation, abure and abvp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sterilize
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Grab scissors, some clamps, and sterilize everything. (7 words)
Italian winery accidentally implements plan to sterilize drinking water amidst Coronavirus. (11 words)
And Milner revealed a deeper plan to control humanity rather than sterilize them. (13 words)
That included adding an extra autoclave to sterilize instruments more quickly, using spacesuit-like gowns for doctors to reduce infection risk and having patients start physical therapy just hours after knee- or hip-replacement surgery. (35 words)
You can also make your own by mixing ⅓ part sand, ⅓ part peat moss and ⅓ loamy soil, then heating it in an oven for 30 minutes at 180 degrees to sterilize it. (34 words)
One bag needs to be used 5000 times to create less waste and that does not include the energy needed to sterilize it after every time food has been carried in it. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
How you’re using radiation to sterilize the device and packaging of that device.
People were cooking in the hallways of a building in which no sterile environment was possible because there was nothing with which to sterilize.
The government has said they plan to sterilize 40 hippos a year, as well as transfer some abroad, and possibly euthanise others.
And Milner revealed a deeper plan to control humanity rather than sterilize them.
And they were using it as a spray down mechanism to basically sterilize the areas for this virus situation.
In the first half of the twentieth century, American eugenics laws enabled the government to sterilize anyone they deemed to be “unfit to reproduce,” according to the Smithsonian.
Italian winery accidentally implements plan to sterilize drinking water amidst Coronavirus.
It's best to use cloth gloves, and sterilize them in boiling water once a day.
Other conspiracy theories assert that Gates started the virus, knew it was coming, or wants to sterilize people with vaccines.
Reusable products are labor and time consuming to sterilize after each use, so using disposable products is the best method to keep students and employees from exposure.
If you want to use soil from your yard in houseplants you are supposed to sterilize it in your oven first.
Methyl bromide is an acutely toxic chemical used to sterilize fields before grapes are planted.
One bag needs to be used 5000 times to create less waste and that does not include the energy needed to sterilize it after every time food has been carried in it.
That included adding an extra autoclave to sterilize instruments more quickly, using spacesuit-like gowns for doctors to reduce infection risk and having patients start physical therapy just hours after knee- or hip-replacement surgery.
These groups were perceived by many whites as being militant, radical, and dangerous, and this, too, influenced the willingness to sterilize women of color.
Grab scissors, some clamps, and sterilize everything.
In 1994 Sheely said that California cotton growers invested in a state-of-the-art facility in Phoenix, Ariz. where pink bollworm moths were irradiated to sterilize them.
We realized pretty early that we needed to sterilize our exposure to specific sectors of the economy and specific economies of the continent.
You can also make your own by mixing ⅓ part sand, ⅓ part peat moss and ⅓ loamy soil, then heating it in an oven for 30 minutes at 180 degrees to sterilize it.
After the protagonists discover and sterilize 49 boxes found throughout his lairs in London, they learn that Dracula has fled with the missing 50th box back to his castle in Transylvania.
Common combinations with sterilize
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to sterilize 23×
- sterilize the 4×
- sterilize it 4×
- sterilize them 3×
- and sterilize 3×
- sterilize equipment 2×