How to Use sifting in a Sentence

sifting

noun

• From our sifting -- we found-- parts of the device itself, wiring.
  — CBS News, 30 May 2017
• Though sifting has been used in other papers, it had never been tried on the three-term progression problem.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• This week has already seen a sifting of candidates, with dozens of M.P.s retiring.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2019
• Since then, careful sifting has yielded bones from a wide range of local animal species.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Not that Ferrell was averse to a careful re-sifting of the historical evidence.
  — James Grant, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
• The data was built from a digital sifting of public property records in all U.S. counties.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
• Nonetheless, just as mud is a good place to find gold nuggets, Netflix, with some careful sifting, is a good place to find great movies, and a viewer with no other platforms at hand could keep busy and happy there for quite a while.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2020
• No more sifting through your purse or makeup bag for your favorite lip gloss and liner, these see-thru organizers will keep your essentials in perfect view.
  — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 9 Apr. 2020
• For example, Dearie apparently proposed that both sides complete their sifting of the documents and proposals for how to label them by Oct. 7.
  — Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2022
• Once the automated data-sifting is complete, human analysis takes over, Khan says.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 25 Jan. 2020
• Landlubber options include an excellent half-pound burger paved with Gruyère and enlivened by tarragon mayo, the accompanying fries given a sifting of Cajun spices.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 10 July 2019
• The children take turns dumping their baskets over a rudimentary sifting tool — a large piece of netting with a wooden frame — that reveals handfuls of mica, a shimmery mineral composite that’s been forming underground for hundreds of years.
  — Lexy Lebsack, refinery29.com, 31 May 2020
• Inconsistent sifting and finding targets as move blocker.
  — Nathaniel Cline, cleveland.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Yet performance art is found in Laib’s ritualistic gathering, sifting and pouring.
  — Associated Press, WIRED, 20 June 2001
• The sharply dueling narratives showed that the impeachment battle will be one of bitter political messaging as much as impartial sifting of evidence.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2019
• Scallops — given a sifting of dehydrated porcini mushroom powder — came atop a raft of apple-cauliflower puree bolstered with sundried cherries and pancetta, making for a savory, Thanksgiving kind of complement.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 3 July 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024