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How to use sieve in a sentence

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When the rice is done, drain it gently in a sieve or colander, letting the liquid run out of its own accord but not shaking it dry.
The bird usually feeds on shrimps and larvae using its huge bill to sieve food from water.
Slowly strain the butter through a fine sieve into a clean pan, leaving the sediment behind.
Remove from the heat and leave to cool, then strain the stock through a fine sieve, reserving the ham hock on one side.
Simmer for 10 minutes, leave to cool and then strain the mixture through a sieve into a large jug.
Remove from the heat and strain the mixture through a fine mesh sieve into a bowl.
Line a colander or sieve with a couple of layers of cheesecloth and strain the soup.
Using a ladle, spoon the liquid into a cheesecloth-lined, fine mesh sieve and discard the solids.
Thinly slice half the strawberries, mash or sieve the remainder and mix with the cream, lemon juice, sherry or wine and sugar.
Strain through a fine mesh sieve lined with cheesecloth, discard solids and set aside, keeping warm.
Accumulation was found first in the xylem, then in vascular parenchyma and then in the thick-walled sieve elements.
Blend spinach and ricotta or cottage cheese in a blender or work together through a sieve.
Pour the cooked fruit into a sieve set over the bowl of reserved berries and use the back of a wooden spoon to press the fruit through the sieve.
By now you will have a wooden container full of an insipid yellowish opaque liquid and a sieve full of mash.
A sieve is like a strainer that you drain spaghetti through when it is done cooking.
Strain stock through a colander, pass it through a fine-mesh sieve and reserve.
Each of six trenches being excavated simultaneously had its own sieve in operation.
Strain oil through a fine-mesh sieve, then again through cheesecloth and refrigerate until ready to use, or up to two weeks.
Strain the sauce through a fine mesh sieve and season with lime juice and salt.
Place the birds in a roasting tin, open out their legs and trickle over the melted butter through a sieve.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Then strain the liquor through a sieve, and put it into a kettle or stew-pan.
Boil it up, and then pass it through a sieve and warm it up in a bain-marie.
By means of a rose, c, water is sprinkled over the entire surface of the sieve and separates the fecula from the fibrous matter.
The trouble in sieving gravel is that if the sieve be filled to its capacity the shaking soon becomes tiring.
Force the tomato through a sieve, turn it into the hot sauce, and season all with salt and pepper.
His incognito, which had as many holes as a sieve, was not meant to hide a personality but a fact.
Cook the rolled oats according to the directions already given, and then force them through a fine sieve.
Remove the bouquet garni, strain the broth through a fine sieve and return to the pot.
They can now be strained through a hair sieve, but, still better, they can be squeezed dry in a tamis cloth.
The sun-baked canvas was like a sieve and in a moment both men were saturated.
Make the prune pulp by removing the seeds from stewed prunes and forcing the prunes through a sieve or a ricer.
Bruise three ounces of cloves, steep them for ten days in a quart of brandy, and strain off the tincture through a flannel sieve.
Rub it through a sieve, return it to the stewpan, put in the hash, and let it stand by the side of the fire till the meat is warm.
Put the hard-cooked egg yolks through a sieve or a ricer and sprinkle them on top of the white sauce.
A sieve was a watertight compartment in comparison with that elongated shed.
Rub through a sieve into a bowl, add a pint of whipped cream flavored with noyau and then an ounce of gelatine dissolved.
Put the oysters into a sieve, and set it on a pan to drain the liquor from them.
Construct a second sieve with 15 perforations to the lineal inch.
With the misfitting door and cracked sides it is much like a sieve.
Pass through a fine sieve TO SERVE Swipe a small amount of carrot puree on the plate and a blob of pomme puree to one side.
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