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Sterile in sentence

96 examples of Sterile in a sentence

But again, these are done in these primordial conditions, really messy conditions, not sort of sterile laboratory conditions.
So if you go back about two and a half billion years, the Earth was this big, sterile hunk of rock with a lot of chemicals floating around on it.
They all live in colonies consisting of one or a few queens, and then all the ants you see walking around are sterile female workers.
The inventor and engineers and also the manufacturers and everybody works at the same time, but this would be sterile if this was happening in a parallel and uncrossed process.
And if you can put more, I'll call them sterile, that the offspring will actually die at different stages, but I'll call them sterile for now.
If you put more sterile males out into the environment, then the females are more likely to find a sterile male than a fertile one, and you will bring that population down.
And speaking of food, our cultured food has evolved, and today we prepare cultured food in beautiful, sterile facilities like this.
But after the buzz, the excitement, the power that comes from this community, I began to yearn for a less sterile, less academic way to address these issues, the issues that I was talking about.
Not in sterile policy terms like "mass incarceration," or "sentencing of nonviolent offenders," but in human terms.
The baby mask was there, the sterile towel, the sterile equipment that you needed.
It used to be, two, three hundred years ago, that a lawn was a symbol of prestige, and so it was only the very rich that could keep these green actually, deserts: they're totally sterile.
We've been familiar for 40 years with this image: the fragile beauty of land, ocean and clouds, contrasted with the sterile moonscape on which the astronauts left their footprints.
We had to grow them in vermi manure, which is sterile, or hydroponics, and take them outdoors every three to four months.
For the next several years, the colony only produces sterile workers.
With the patient insensitive to pain, and a sterile operating field all bets were off, the sky was the limit.
Now as soon as I pop the teat, sterile drinking water is going to come out.
That is safe, sterile drinking water.
They can make their own sterile drinking water, and start to get on with rebuilding their homes and their lives.
All we've go to do is make it sterile.
And then they repackage them and sell them out on markets for literally more money than a sterile syringe in the first place, which is quite bizarre.
Some of these are hopeless universes, completely sterile, with other kinds of pathologies like no notion of space, no notion of time, no matter, other problems like that.
But also, by the way, the coffee is hot, the liquid is sterile; you're not likely to get cholera that way.
One year later, they're being stalked by a knife-wielding maniac (with the decidely unscary disguise of a hospital sterile mask and an orange jumpsuit).
The overall effect is bleak and sterile, a la THX-1138.
Most of the "streets of New York" scenes have a sterile, unreal look with no sense of the period.
In fact, they keep them sterile as there is no character development at all.
When we're introduced to him at the start of the film, he's been living a non-life in an elegant but sterile hotel in the Italian-speaking Canton of Switzerland for the last ten years, conducting a business we are only gradually introduced to.
This film has a decidedly weird setting, taking place in a school that's really old to begin with but it certainly doesn't look like any sterile medical school environment.
A man arrives in a strange, beautiful, sterile city where no-one feels any emotion and obsesses instead about interior design.
It's an attempt to get inside a male relationship, but the careful, sterile presentation is a cheat.
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