Sterile has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | I'm sterile. | |
| 2. | I cannot get pregnant. I am sterile. | |
| 3. | His country is censored the world over, so that outsiders would not see the industrial pollution and the huge sterile apartment blocks therein. | |
| 4. | Mules are sterile. | |
| 5. | Here he saw a pool of water, clear to its very depths. There were no marsh reeds round it, no sterile sedge, no spikes of rushes: it was crystal liquid. The edges of the pool were bordered by fresh turf, and the grass was always green. | |
| 6. | The patient is sterile. | |
| 7. | Mars is a sterile frozen world. | |
| 8. | The quarantine will last as long as it takes so that Argentinians stay alive and well, the rest are sterile debates. |