Example Sentences

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A sterile scent permeated the chapel as if to keep all of the people now occupying it in a germless fervor.

From The Verge • Feb. 4, 2019

Marc Andreessen, the firm’s co-founder, fixed his gaze on Doshi as he disinfected his germless hands with a sanitizing wipe.

From The New Yorker • May 11, 2015

Zoologists had succeeded in keeping fish, chickens, guinea pigs and monkeys alive under completely germless conditions.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wish to be totally clean, germless, without bacteria, like the surface of the moon.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

You are probably the only person in New York State to have germless plates.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)