But the designers also had concerns about a computerized world in danger of becoming sterile, where even more people compete for fewer resources.

Slowly, but more and more paddy fields are becoming sterile.

To many Americans, politics has become remote and sterile, posing false choices.

The whole being of him had become sterile, he was a spectre, divorced from life.

In a land where women had become sterile, such an impulse could only lead to deep frustration.

The lake is getting increasingly salty, and some experts fear it is on its way to becoming sterile.

It is a bleak vision of the future when the Earth has become totally sterile.

Without connection to the "world," it risks becoming sterile.

When he was 25 years old, it was discovered that he had also become sterile.