sift

How To Use sift In A Sentence

• And if you can develop a machine to look for the needle in the haystack and what you come out with from having the machine sift through the haystack is a box of straw, where maybe the needle's in there and maybe a few bonus needles, then that's a whole lot better than having humans try to sift through a haystack. Wired Top Stories
• Stir in the sifted flour and cocoa powder. Times, Sunday Times
• The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
• Sifting through the reports logged in the last couple of weeks, he came across a tale that had previously gone unread. EVERVILLE
• The discovery was made by accountants sifting through the remains of the Maxwell business empire.
• Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
• Its massive back pushed up against the ceiling; the wooden timbers groaned and dust sifted down, making Rafe cough.
• A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. George Eliot 
• At auction, cherished memories are trashed as treasured possessions are sifted and ascribed their price in the name of the bottom line.
• These figures suggest that the sift did not discriminate against people on the basis of which university they had attended.