sterile

In a sentence

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

• Crossing a horse with a donkey yields a mule that is sterile, so the pairing must be repeated every generation.

  Science

• Releasing sterile male mosquitoes collapsed the island's population, because the eggs the females laid never hatched at all.

  Environment

• Some cancer treatments leave patients sterile, so clinics now discuss freezing cells for later parenthood before therapy begins.

  Medicine

• The bananas in every fruit bowl come from a sterile variety, so growers plant cuttings rather than seeds.

  Cooking

• A seed firm patented a sterile crop in 1998 so farmers could not replant saved grain, and the outcry kept it off the market.

  Business

• The mules that carry hikers into the canyon are sterile, so the outfitter buys fresh animals from a breeder every few years.

  Travel

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