sieve
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The average American home is about as airtight and well-insulated as a metal sieve.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
That could have maybe turned into something, but Chelsea wants the sieve, she wants to pour down the plug hole.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025
It’s a kind of medievalism, in other words, that seems to have passed through a sieve of Jane Austen or Emily Brontë; now you can see it in the works of medieval-themed romantasy novels.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025
"It's tedious work. We dig a pit, pull out chunks of soil and rock, wash them in a sieve and then carefully sift through thousands of dried, tiny stones to look for diamonds," he said.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2024
Now as the vacuum-underground rushed him through the dead cellars of town, jolting him, he remembered the terrible logic of that sieve, and he looked down and saw that he was carrying the Bible open.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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