1 The bitter waters of life surged high about him, their sterile taste was on his lips.
2 To the sterile winter air the wood gave a scent of March sap.
3 It was the sterile and rugged district which separates the tributaries of Champlain from those of the Hudson, the Mohawk, and the St. Lawrence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 4 And your nasty, sterile want of common sympathy is in the worst taste imaginable.
5 They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.
6 It really seemed that Sonya did not feel her position trying, and had grown quite reconciled to her lot as a sterile flower.
7 It is on this condition that it ceases to be a sterile love of science.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 8 Kennicott had inherited it from a medical predecessor, and changed it only by adding a white enameled operating-table, a sterilizer, a Roentgen-ray apparatus, and a small portable typewriter.