Words similar to sterilize

Example sentences for: sterilize

How can you use “sterilize” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

To sterilize the piece of candy you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, somehow assuming this will remove all the germs.
But the investigation should really go beyond the supermarket: when a jewelry store that does ear-piercing advertises, “We sterilize all our instruments,” is it not hinting something unsavory about other establishments?
They agreed to "sterilize" the airspace along the flight's westerly route so the safety of other planes would not be affected.
For the most part, as might be expected, Maggio's alternatives and equivalents are phrasal definitions which, if assiduously applied, would effectively sterilize all writing.
The same technology is already used safely in hospital radiation-therapy units and plants that sterilize medical products.