How To Use Winnow In A Sentence

My task is to winnow through what remains after the onslaught and pick up unconsidered trifles they might have missed. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
Note 61: CS 1601; Proto-Mashariki * - pung - "to winnow, to fan"; PNECB * - pung "to winnow, to fan, to exorcise"; e.g., Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
The chaff is winnowed out by the activities of millions of independent actions.
Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which in our country dialect we call a wecht, and go through all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind. Halloween
Objective To winnow and establish the optimal condition for ultrasonic extraction of total flavone from christina loosestrife herb.

After all the grain have been removed from the mahangu heads this grain must be winnowed to remove the husks.
In this steep economic downturn, markets are flushing out overcapacity, winnowing the weak from the strong.
My task is to winnow through what remains after the onslaught and pick up unconsidered trifles they might have missed. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
Mexico; while nothing more than their rations of rice are paid them here, which amount to three fanégas of unwinnowed rice apiece per month, and some additional aid from year to year, and between the departure of the vessels. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
[16] [16] Or, "the same chaff (i.e. unwinnowed corn, Angl. corn) twice. The Economist
The transaction would winnow the ranks of hard drive makers—a market that once had dozens of suppliers—to four remaining giants. Merger to Create PC Drive Giant
the winnowing was done by women
We started winnowing legacy applications in connection with cutover to NMCI.
To the extent that the FDA has helped winnow the mainstream drug market down to scientifically proven treatments, it has been a help rather than hindrance.
Or else, well-fermented maslin, that is, provender formed of a mixture of various substances: grain, beans, vetches, hay, and salt. winnowed -- not as it is usually given to cattle before it is separated from the chaff; the grain shall be so abundant that it shall be given winnowed. shovel -- by which the grain was thrown up in the wind to separate it from the chaff. fan -- an instrument for winnowing. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It's important to winnow truth from falsehood in scientific research.
Perennial boom and bust cycles have always winnowed out weak farmers.
They will have the chance to try reaping, stooking, threshing, winnowing and milling and, if they still have the energy, cooking as they take part in the entire harvest process from field to plate.
The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.
Vanity of Notwithstanding all this denunciation, to the utter con - agrology. fufion of the aftrologers, there did not blow, during the whole time affigned, any wind to hinder the farmers from threfhing and winnowing their corn c. The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time;
It was in effect a palimpsest of the best of previous translations, corrected and winnowed through almost a hundred years of development.
They may be imbricated and/or fragmented, suggesting winnowing and directed current stress.
She stood there winnowing grain all day in the field
Shaggy yaks stomp around threshing circles, ears of barley are thrashed with sticks and winnowed by singing villagers in twos and threes.
The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.
They winnowed it down, separating essentials from wish lists, then Gail and Stu summarized them in a memo to me. The Good Fight
A 19th century hand-powered barn winnowing machine using volunteers' muscle power will then separate the grain from the chaff before milling, using machines from replica Stone Age querns to a Bamford mill powered by a 1930 tractor.
In the countryside, her duties include caring for children, home, and garden, as well as transplanting, harvesting, and winnowing the rice.
Days like this become a file of lingering images: women winnowing grain, children carrying almost their own weight in firewood, and meeting a Hindu sadhu on pilgrimage.
A tool called a winnower then cracks and discards the husks, and the beans are ground into small bits called nibs. News
The winnowing of the field to two has oddly helped his electability. Times, Sunday Times
winnowed" as the opening of the beautiful and passionate soliloquy of Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
It's easy to fall in love with particular images, even mediocre ones, but with time it also becomes easier to winnow the wheat from the chaff.
Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three.
Their articles, it is true, were often a kind of yeasty collection of fond and winnowed opinions, but among these shallow fopperies there would at times be heard a strain of higher mood. The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850
To winnow the definition into something more useful to archaeologists, many workers employ the list of behavioral traits that distinguish the Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Europe.
Time will winnow the wheat from the chaff but it won't diminish the pleasure of Lane's reviews.
They sowed seed by hand, harvested using a curved sickle, threshed grain with a hand flail, and winnowed it by throwing it into the air and letting the wind carry away the chaff.
They became irrelevant as he narrowed in focus until his triangular face seemed to winnow to a point. ABSOLUTE ZERO
Minister of Law and Order Hernus Kriel on Monday rejected out of hand an African National Congress statement that the transitional executive council should "winnow" racist policemen from the South ANC Daily News Briefing
Tidal processes constantly winnow the substrate surface in the submerged mouthbar front, and resuspend mud and silt into the water.
He compares this to the winnowing of grains in a sieve, or the sorting of pebbles riffled by the tide: it is as if there were a kind of attraction of like to like.
Any winnowing will help eliminate the me-too competitors that have sprung up and dampen any extreme valuations, the investors say. Web Start-Ups Hit Cash Crunch
Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which, in our country dialect, we call a wecht; and go through all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
Show producers are now winnowing the group to 12 hopefuls for America's first reality-TV primary.
He then winnows out the peas from their shells and other debris, and brings them home for his wife to finish cleaning and drying them (the final drying is done in the oven). Recipe: Fennel-Scented Black-eyed Peas and Wild Greens (Φασόλια Μαυρομάτικα με Χόρτα και Μάραθο)
The court is now able to winnow the grain from the chaff, as the Photo Production reasoning is embodied in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, s. 9.
Then the chaff - the husks and debris - was ‘winnowed’ or blown off the heavier grain with the aid of the wind or with fans.
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.
But I have figured out a chunk of what I want in relationships, which helped me winnow three possibilities down to the one that suits me best (and I know, being poly means it's not a zero-sum game, but I don't like slicing up my time and energy too thin, and there are reasons the other two wouldn't work). Thor's Day
A 19th century hand-powered barn winnowing machine using volunteers' muscle power will then separate the grain from the chaff before milling, using machines from replica Stone Age querns to a Bamford mill powered by a 1930 tractor.
One tray, the * - sele, was innovated at least as far back as the proto-Eastern-Savanna Bantu period when it designated a "winnowing basket," while the * - ungo "winnowing/sifting basket" may represent a PNECB innovation from a Mashariki verb that meant "to winnow. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
After the 1150s, for example, there was a sudden and unexpected winnowing of the baronage. The Times Literary Supplement
Take the world for a heap of unwinnowed corn in the floor, and God loves it, Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
It's important to winnow truth from falsehood in scientific research.
Many potential buyers have already stepped forward and the next step is to winnow that group to a handful, said Meade, but the process will pause during a period of mourning for Mrs. Cohen. Politics and Prose co-owner Carla Cohen has died
The chaff is winnowed out by the activities of millions of independent actions.
A person in clean moccasins then ‘danced the rice’ treading on it to remove the hull and then tossing it into the air to winnow the chaff.
The backyard lights look nice, and they'd better - I spent Saturday afternoon cannibalizing the entire system, harvesting good bulbs from bad lamps, winnowing 15 down to seven.
As, when grain is shaken and winnowed by fans and other instruments used in the threshing of corn, the close and heavy particles are borne away and settle in one direction, and the loose and light particles in another.
Shaggy yaks stomp around threshing circles, ears of barley are thrashed with sticks and winnowed by singing villagers in twos and threes.
We have to winnow out and punish these foolish ideas.
A person in clean moccasins then ‘danced the rice’ treading on it to remove the hull and then tossing it into the air to winnow the chaff.
Chris Waywell winnows the wheat from the chaff in this elusive subject.
The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.
So he will return to those issues and try to kind of winnow down the states that he pays attention to. CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2007
But it was not until the last few weeks that McCain winnowed his list to five or six finalists. August « 2008 « Niqnaq
There is even a sign in the tourist office - of all places - for a ‘hand-power riddling and winnowing combinated machine on rent.’
For example, look at something like a winnowing machine which separates the corn from the chaff.
They try them, as silver in the furnace is refined from its dross; they purge them, as wheat in the barn is winnowed from the chaff; and they make them white, as cloth by the fuller is cleared from its spots. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Some prominent religious leaders still hope that South Carolina might winnow the field in ways that make it easier for social conservatives to coalesce in later races, such as Florida, which is next on the calendar. Hope Dims for an Evangelical Pick
Lots ov birdies hit r winnows & stum themselfs badly. Fail. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Since free-market competition has not yet winnowed the 300-plus electronic medical records (EMR) systems to a viable number of good products, the stimulus will favor the old, clunky, entrenched products over the newer and fleeter. Digitizing Medical Records May Help, but It's Complex
June 13, 2009 at 2:43 pm yu will lubs da sweet basils! dey grow liek weeds and dey taest wunnerful! ai used tu grow a gihugeous bocks ob dem on the fyer eskape outsied mai winnow. den when i wuld cut dem fur kooken, Shadow would tri tu reach up and grabs dem orf ob da tablol. ai had tu gibs her a leaf ob her own soz dat i culd kook in peas. And thats when he realized…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
A woman winnowing grain in the Virunga National Park.
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
Seed extraction from the indehiscent pods is usually carried out by manual threshing. milling or maceration of the pods followed by winnowing and screening. Chapter 8
Apollo, handing him a sack of unwinnowed wheat, bade him pick out _all the chaff _for his reward. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5
The lack of small, easily transported elements in the collection also suggests current activity, as such elements may be quickly winnowed out of a bone assemblage.
The selection here - winnowed from almost the entire body of surviving correspondence precisely as being of the greatest interest - proves almost completely unforthcoming in this respect.
This involved process includes roasting the beans, winnowing the shells, and grinding the nibs to form chocolate liquor.
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.
Dynegy, instead, embarked on an eight-year process to winnow debt—down from about $15 billion to less than $5 billion by the end of 2010—and avoid bankruptcy, which would have wiped out the value of common shares. Dynegy Top Officers, Directors to Leave
Also you may occasionally see her out in the fields helping her mother, Memnet, crush and winnow the grain.
Not allowing the field to be kind of winnowed down to one or two people that everyone can get behind? CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2004
She believes the selected few are better than the unwinnowed many as rulers. The Canadian Commonwealth
My task is to winnow through what remains after the onslaught and pick up unconsidered trifles they might have missed. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
It's important to winnow truth from falsehood in scientific research.
To winnow the wheat from the chaff and to prepare it in an easily digested shape for the tender stomachs of first- and second-year students taxes the resources of the most capable teacher.
Such sediments and ichnofacies suggest lag deposits winnowed in proximal storm-generated beds.
The men were shovelling the unwinnowed grain into heaps, the woman and the girl sweeping up what remained. Hadji Murad
The packing continues, as I once again go through the process of winnowing out the dross that I have collected over the past dozen or so years.
For were our experience to go on forever accumulating, unwinnowed, undiminished, every man would sooner or later break down beneath it; every man would be crushed by his own traditions, becoming a grave to himself, and drawing the clods over his own head. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
But they comforted themselves knowing they'd picked up a couple of governorships, winnowing the Republican lead to 24-23.
Inasmuch as the governor of the said islands was made cognizant of the above, he ordered in the year 601 that one hundred pesos of common gold and two hundred fanegas of unwinnowed rice be given the said religious annually for four years, for the support of the said seminary, to be taken from the fund of the fourths The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
Both sides are expected to take several days to winnow the panel down to a jury of 16. Jury selection continues in Levy case
When dried they are separated from the dust and partly from the outward membranous coat by means of a kind of winnow, and are then laid up in warehouses. James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat
Thus has heand many more of the same bevy, that I know the drossy age dotes ononly got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter, a kind of yesty collection which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions; and do but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out. Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Tidal processes constantly winnow the substrate surface in the submerged mouthbar front, and resuspend mud and silt into the water.
So they are taxed to a less amount, each Indian being taxed for a fanéga and a half of unwinnowed rice, and a piece of cloth, white or colored, woven from a plant. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
The village girls spit out the chaff as they winnow with wooden forks and sing about their dowry jewels.
The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.
Analysts attempt to winnow a few kernels of truth from a mass of falsehood in order to construct a comprehensible mosaic from a swiftly flowing stream of uncertain data.
To winnow the definition into something more useful to archaeologists, many workers employ the list of behavioral traits that distinguish the Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Europe.
The jigged rice was winnowed with a bark tray to separate the chaff.
When discovered, her face and upper body were protected by a large woven winnowing basket.
On hearing this, Apollo, handing him a sack of unwinnowed wheat, bade him pick out _all the chaff_ for his reward. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
When discovered, her face and upper body were protected by a large woven winnowing basket.
winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants
His distaste for hypotheses is the natural reaction of a man in possession of a far superior instrument for winnowing truth from error.
At what point do we see this really huge field kind of winnowed down to a handful of serious contenders, do you think? CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2007
They became irrelevant as he narrowed in focus until his triangular face seemed to winnow to a point. ABSOLUTE ZERO
Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three.
These include the preparation of new fields, preparing existing fields, ploughing, planting, harvesting, threshing, winnowing, and storing the grain.
The wind was winnowing her hair
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.
The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.
The heats, repechage and semifinal rounds winnow the contenders down to six boats for the final. USATODAY.com
Time has winnowed out certain of the essays as superior.
Mashariki * - sel - "to winnow"; PESB * - sele "basket"; e.g., Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
We should winnow out the errors in logic.
winnow chaff
And a room's lighting also greatly affects how colors appear both on the digital image and when painting the walls, she adds, noting that customers should use apps to winnow choices but then try a sample before committing. Narrowing 3,500 Paint Choices to 1 Perfect Hue
the wind winnowed the grass
A winnowing machine stood close beside her, and to relieve her suspense she gently moved the handle; whereupon a cloud of wheat husks flew out into her face, and covered her clothes and bonnet, and stuck into the fur of her victorine. The Mayor of Casterbridge
Is this recession purely cyclical, or are we seeing a repeat of the 1970s, when uncompetitive industries were winnowed out?
Now that most of the chaff has been winnowed I hope to be able to concentrate on the wheat.
Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which, in our country-dialect, we call a wecht; and go thro 'all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind. Robert Burns How To Know Him
The list was developed in a series of winnowing steps and overseen by economists, with the final panel including three Nobel laureates.
Water flow in the rivers decreased when the region's climate changed about 5,000 years ago and wind began to winnow the river delta's dried sediments.

How To Use Winnow In A Sentence

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