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Examples of sift
sift
Use your fingers to carefully sift through it and remove any grit or impurities.
From the courier-journal.com
Sift the flour, baking powder and soda into the pan, mix and spoon into the tin.
From the guardian.co.uk
Gradually sift in the flour to form a batter about the thickness of heavy cream.
From the post-gazette.com
Shoppers sift through Twitter posts for opinions about gadgets or running shoes.
From the businessweek.com
Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl.
From the chron.com
Sift the dry ingredients into a large bowl, then stir in the chocolate and nuts.
From the chron.com
Still, there will be plenty of images left over for descendents to sift through.
From the stltoday.com
If you come across something interesting as you sift our databases, let us know.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
Its value lies in its ability to quickly sift through a steady stream of tweets.
From the kentucky.com
- Move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods"
- Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
- Sieve: check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
- Sieve: distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"
- (sifting) winnow: the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women"
- A sieve, or sifter, separates wanted elements from unwanted material using a filter such as a mesh or net. However, in cooking, especially with flour, a sifter is used to aerate the substance, among other things. A strainer is a type of sieve typically used to separate a solid from a liquid. ...
- To sieve or strain (something); To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving; To examine (something) carefully
- Having been sifted
- (Sifted) (Process) Materials that have been passed through wire sieves to separate particles in different sizes. The separation of finer materials than would be done by screening (AAFCO, 2000).
