STERILE


Meaning of STERILE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

debate

Roy Hattersley's simultaneous resignation as deputy leader also opens up the increasingly sterile debate on constitutional reform.

This threatens to become a sterile debate , but there are ways to make progress.

Legal theory has long been bedevilled by a sterile debate between positivists and natural lawyers.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a sterile laboratory

a sterile , meaningless relationship

a group of sterile skyscrapers

Giving blood is perfectly safe. All equipment is sterile , used once and thrown away.

Red Cross officials say they are running short of disinfectant and sterile bandages.

Some women who used the birth control device became sterile .

Susan thought that her illness had made her sterile .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

During the sterile Eighties, we overdosed on design and killed freedom of expression.

In a sterile world casein would be nearly an ideal glue.

It lost to a politicized plan, which resulted in the sterile towers and hidden plazas that now mark Bunker Hill.

The floors of old-growth forests tend to be fairly sterile because overhead canopies of leaves prevent light from reaching the ground.

There are even sterile controls for the piped music.

They are native to dry and sterile regions.

This does not, however, render the question of social origins of state personnel, such as bureaucrats, sterile .

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