Sentence example with the word 'sifting'

sifting

amassing evidence, clarification, destructive distillation, elutriation, filtering, identification, legwork, purification, selection, sorting out, triage

Definition n. the act of separating grain from chaff

Last update: August 5, 2015


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She had a ton left and began sifting through her drawers for jeans.   [Please select]

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This Artillery School had a violent way of sifting out a man's moral worth; you hadn't much conceit left by the end of it.   [Please select]

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We did not want to be disagreeable, though really we were keen on being detectives and sifting that perambulator to the very dregs.   [Please select]

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There was the inevitable sifting of the timid-hearted and the weak, but the great majority stood fast.   [Please select]

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Harrington was purchasing agent, has signified his intention of sifting the matter to the bottom.   [Please select]

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Instead of marshaling and sifting the proofs for immortality, he chants "I know I am deathless."   [Please select]

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He has left precepts and examples of what he meant by his cross-examining and sifting processes.   [Please select]

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"We all come back to God in these days of soul-sifting," said Gertrude to John Meredith.   [Please select]

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Small basket tray for sifting parched corn, made of willow ware.   [Please select]

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But if we still carry on our sifting humour, and ask, _What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience.   [Please select]

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For a moment she stood like a rock, sifting the air in her nose; then, finding nothing in the wind, she turned slowly in my direction to use her ears and eyes.   [Please select]

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