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How to use sifting in a sentence

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Prepare the pasta by sifting the flour and a pinch of salt into a mound on a board. make a well in the centre and add the eggs.
It was only a few hours after the general election results that the counters were again sifting through ballot papers.
After sifting through the charred remnants of the Interweb, I opted to just share with you a small share of this Cornucopia of Derp.
It's intricate, emotional, cerebral, funny, satirical, worldly, and will have you sifting through your reference books with glee.
After sifting through a mountain of words, the author has settled on 1,500 meanings that reflect the ever-changing world of lexicography.
Three rivers flowed into the city, their waters sifting through the canal system before reaching the lake.
In the morning, he sat on the edge of the bed, the weight of another day upon him, light sifting dully in from under the window shade.
She sprayed a gentle mist of elegant perfume, one dash on her neck, another sifting onto her cascading hair, and another for her wrists.
Four middle-aged guys, dressed business-casual, are sitting at a long desk in an off-white room, sifting through files and pecking at laptops.
Watch any good fell runner descending from a summit and it's like sand sifting through an egg timer.
Snow was sifting down at Tiffindell ski resort near Rhodes yesterday morning, adding to over 25 cm which had fallen since Friday.
The more I delved into sifting the reliable from the unreliable, the deeper I dropped into the well of discovery.
I'm having the most enormous fun sifting through the mound of accumulated poems and haiku, bringing order and accord where there was none.
There is a process of sifting and screening among MPs and frontbenchers which provides an informal shortlist of possible leaders.
Candy dragged me into a shop, where she began sifting through a pile of skirts to find her size.
He was in Europe preparing for the Commonwealth Games and I was at home sifting and sorting through his personal belongings and boxing them up.
Three quarters of that was spent sifting choices down to twelve of my favourite songs and favourite songwriters.
Sea squirts spend most of their lives attached to underwater rocks, sifting tiny particles of food from the water around them.
When they browse they move upwind, carefully sniffing and sifting the air for danger, their sharp-sighted eyes constantly on the alert.
The sipping of aromatic and flavorful liqueurs from snifters while sifting in a cushy wing-back chair is a dying art.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Snow was falling steadily, one of those dry, sifting snows that presage a white christmas in the middle west.
The bone was formed by sifting pure smooth earth and wetting it with marrow.
A little more of this lubricity and there will have to be a new and resolute sifting at the fords.
It is one of those cases where the art of the reasoner should be used rather for the sifting of details than for the acquiring of fresh evidence.
The notes I have here made will want sifting, and you can, if you please, extract them under my direction.
Do not our household servants talk of sifting, straining, winnowing?
The snow was sifting over the tundra in icy gusts from the westward.
Once again the great lone land was sifting out and choosing its own.
While economists discombobulate, they've been sifting the dottle from the nation's tobacco manufacturers.
The internment of alien enemies was preliminary to a sifting process.
Horizontal Sifters feature a shaker type, to and fro sifting while trigger action sifters were used via a squeeze handle.
He beheld him sifting his seeds, and soaking them in liquids which were destined to modify or to deepen their colours.
She then cross-examined all the articles which had raised her fears on the other side, and found, on fairly sifting the matter, that there was very little in them.
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