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winnow out

VERB
  1. dismiss from consideration or a contest
    This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration
    John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi

How To Use winnow out In A Sentence

  • The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.
  • The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.
  • The idea is that with these souped up IQ tests, our perplexed universities, confronted by tides of sixth formers all with A grade A-levels, will be able to winnow out the very bright from the merely sharpish.
  • We have to winnow out and punish these foolish ideas.
  • The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.
  • I have a hard time believing a band of cutthroats would operate in this manner, but what really chills the marrow is the Clan's glib acceptance of these robbers who, as far as the Clan is concerned, winnow out the riff-raff. August Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour: Broken Angel
  • It's going to be very hard for some bureaucrat to winnow out the honest borrowers from those who were kind of chiseling around the corners. CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2009
  • The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.
  • The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.
  • Ma points out that the intent of the PRC authorities in reorganizing the export industry when things were over-heating two years ago was to winnow out weak firms, leaving only the strong behind.
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