sterilizes
- present tense form of sterilize (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The lab sterilizes about 750,000 bugs per day, then chills the moths to put them to sleep and ships them off to California.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024
This innovative technology sterilizes the crops, promoting plant growth without the use of chemical fertilizers.
From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2024
It infects Xyris grass, sterilizes it and then produces uncanny mimics of the plant’s yellow flowers.
From Scientific American • Dec. 27, 2021
She also sterilizes the empty jars in the oven before filling, but doesn’t believe it’s necessary to sterilize the bands or lids beforehand.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021
See that she washes and sterilizes her hands thoroughly.
From 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands by Taylor, H. Weston
