In the blue-white illumination the scrubland looked sterile and unwelcoming.

Somehow, in spite of its size and the hundred or more shimmering towers, the city looked sterile and asleep, even dead.

Columbia have looked a bit sterile in recent times, and he looks like the sort of coach they need right now.

It was all shiny metal inside and looked very sterile.

Despite such evidence of human existence, the room looks sterile and unlived-in.

The sink was clean to the point of looking sterile.

His fingernails were manicured, and his pink, well-scrubbed hands looked sterile.

The rocks looked sterile and completely dead, as though no one had ever been here before or would ever be here again.

He gestured at his desk, which was so clean it looked sterile.

The central courtyard looks sterile now but was once used for executions.