pristine

In a sentence

Six example sentences with pristine, each labelled with its topic.

• The lake looked pristine until testers found microplastics in every sample drawn from the northern shore.

  Environment

• Keep the sensor pristine, because one speck of dust shows up on every frame you shoot at a narrow aperture.

  Photography

• Surgical instruments leave the autoclave pristine, and a single ungloved touch sends the whole tray back for another cycle.

  Medicine

• The ice core came up pristine, sealed from the air since before any factory had lit a chimney.

  Science

• The pastry station must be pristine, since a single stray crumb of raw flour can spoil a batch of macarons.

  Cooking

• Chips are made in a pristine cleanroom, where the air is filtered so well that a single dust speck would ruin a wafer.

  Technology

Found in these word lists

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