“When it's time to use it, set the sifter on top of your wheelbarrow or garden cart and shovel some compost into it.”

“The flour cascaded down in ribbon plumes of white instead of descending straight from a barely elevated sifter.”

“The powder is filtered through a coarse sifter and put away in canvas bags.”

“Sauce ladles have occasionally been treated in a similar fashion and sometimes pierced to form sugar sifters.”

“When the kids arrive, they see a big tarp piled with 10 pounds of flour, bowls, scoops, and sifters.”

“Joining Buhler at the' young age of 17, Oliver was apprenticed to the head millwright, building equipment such as sifters, valves and mills.”