Sample Sentences for
antiseptic
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    The air smells of something sharp and antiseptic.  (source)
    antiseptic = a chemical that kills micro-organisms
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    I look away as Eric wipes my neck with an antiseptic wipe and eases the needle into my skin.  (source)
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    Hortensia and Josefina scrubbed the little cabin until it was almost antiseptic.  (source)
    antiseptic = thoroughly clean and free of micro-organisms
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    Rufe, have you got any kind of antiseptic?  (source)
    antiseptic = chemical that kills micro-organisms
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    We provide antiseptics and cotton and a place for the children to cry and nurse their wounds.  (source)
    antiseptics = chemicals used to clean wounds because they kill germs
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    The air was moist and antiseptically cold against her face.†  (source)
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    I hadn't been back there [the hospital] since I'd taken Shawn years before, and as I walked down its white, antiseptic hallway, it was difficult not to think of him.  (source)
    antiseptic = thoroughly clean and free of micro-organisms
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    Stethoscopes and needles and antiseptics.†  (source)
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    To die antiseptically in a hospital was almost unknown.†  (source)
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    I could hear the two men murmuring and laughing over the buzz of the tattooing needle, the smell of antiseptic sharp in my nostrils.  (source)
    antiseptic = a chemical that kills micro-organisms
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    That day, a fresh doctor and ten nurses came in from the city of Yamaguchi with extra bandages and antiseptics, and the third day another physician and a dozen more nurses arrived from Matsue — yet there were still only eight doctors for ten thousand patients.†  (source)
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    In the early twentieth century, the vision of a future society unbelievably rich, leisured, orderly, and efficient — a glittering antiseptic world of glass and steel and snow-white concrete — was part of the consciousness of nearly every literate person.  (source)
    antiseptic = thoroughly clean and free of micro-organisms (also suggesting a man-made rather than a natural or organic environment)
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    He stepped into a lighted room full of men, bloody bandages and the odor of antiseptics; he deposited his burden on a bench, with no word of explanation to anyone, and walked out, not glancing behind him.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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You shouldn't be in this antiseptic joint.  (source)
antiseptic = unnatural
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