winnowing

How To Use winnowing In A Sentence

• But they comforted themselves knowing they'd picked up a couple of governorships, winnowing the Republican lead to 24-23.
• After the 1150s, for example, there was a sudden and unexpected winnowing of the baronage. The Times Literary Supplement
• 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.
• 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.
• A woman winnowing grain in the Virunga National Park.
• 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
• This involved process includes roasting the beans, winnowing the shells, and grinding the nibs to form chocolate liquor.
• 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.
• 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