How to Use sterilizer in a Sentence

sterilizer

noun
  • Baby gear now spans heaters, sterilizers, monitors, heart-rate trackers, and smart toys, often adding up to thousands of dollars.
    — Maria Bolevich, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Last year, the EPA imposed stricter limits on the chemical, which is used as a sterilizer.
    — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Last year, the EPA imposed stricter limits on the chemical, which is used as a sterilizer.
    — Sharon Lerner, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Family suites are up to 1,206 square feet with kitchenettes, private terraces, and available cribs, sterilizers, and other equipment for young guests.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The change sought to reduce the amount of EtO released from commercial sterilizers by 90% and lessen the hazards for nearby communities.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Many hotels even provide baby monitors, bottle warmers, changing tables, sterilizers, baby-safe bath amenities, and even diapers.
    — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Many hotels even provide baby monitors, bottle warmers, changing tables, sterilizers, baby-safe bath amenities, and even diapers.
    — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2026
  • In 2024, the EPA approved stricter rules that require commercial sterilizers for medical equipment and large chemical plants to slash emissions of ethylene oxide, which causes lymphoma and breast cancer.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The office estimated that nearly half a million Americans were exposed to unacceptable cancer risks from industrial emissions by chemical plants, commercial sterilizers and other facilities pumping out ethylene oxide.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Kevin Wagner, vice president of the medical sterilizer company Sterigenics, messaged asking that nine facilities emitting the carcinogenic gas ethylene oxide, including near Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Charlotte and Atlanta, be exempted.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 8 May 2026

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