Sample sentences for ANTISEPTIC

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Definition

a substance used to clean wounds because it prevents infection by killing harmful micro-organisms such as bacteria

or more rarely when used as an adjective: describing something as thoroughly clean and free of micro-organisms

Much more rarely, "antiseptic" is used to indicate something that is too planned — lacking in organic or natural character.

I washed the wound and then used alcohol as an antiseptic.

antiseptic = a substance used to clean wounds because it prevents infection by killing harmful micro-organisms such as bacteria

The nurse always wipes the skin with an antiseptic swab before administering a shot.

antiseptic = a substance used to clean wounds because it prevents infection by killing harmful micro-organisms such as bacteria

The air smells of something sharp and antiseptic.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

antiseptic = a chemical that kills micro-organisms

Gently rinsing away the blood, putting on an antiseptic, and bandaging them beneath the cuffs.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

antiseptic = a substance used to clean wounds because it prevents infection by killing harmful micro-organisms such as bacteria

We provide antiseptics and cotton and a place for the children to cry and nurse their wounds.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

antiseptics = chemicals used to clean wounds because they kill germs

The stink of unwashed bodies, stale urine, and infection breaks through the cloud of antiseptic.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
It's more than the reinforced elevator, or the claustrophobia of being so far underground, or the caustic smell of antiseptic.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
He was sent to live his last days in the antiseptic confinement of a sanatorium, where his family sat with him through his final hours.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
Now colors are gentler and fewer; smells are antiseptic.
Maxine Hong Kingston -- The Woman Warrior
The smells of antiseptic and astringent seemed to energize him, and the feelings generated by human trauma and fear seemed to motivate him.
Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street
A first-aid kit with bandages and tubes of antiseptic paste and small scissors.
Gary Paulsen -- Hatchet
Boxes of latex gloves, surgical masks, antiseptic pads, rolls of tape.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
Hortensia and Josefina scrubbed the little cabin until it was almost antiseptic.
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising
It smelled of harsh antiseptic; it smelled too clean and hard and metallic.
Ray Bradbury -- The Pedestrian
From all her talk of moving, I'd imagined a place full of boxes, something impersonal and antiseptic.
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
I swiped two rolls of bandages from the shelf, a bottle of peroxide to clean the wound, and pocketed a tube of antiseptic ointment.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
The antiseptic odor fills the room, and then it comes off his breath.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
He was the most typical figure of Gramarye, his tar being the antiseptic of his sheep.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Even under the smells of antiseptics and alcohol, she could smell the grassy smell of his skin.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
I look away as Eric wipes my neck with an antiseptic wipe and eases the needle into my skin.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent

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