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Note: If the ricotta seems especially wet, drain it in a fine-mesh sieve before whipping.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

"It was filthy, dirty and it leaked like a sieve for many years," he said in a White House video.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

The average American home is about as airtight and well-insulated as a metal sieve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

For decades, I’ve heard that the border is little better than a sieve through which millions of migrants easily pass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

The slopes and low hills that fell gently toward the river only appeared welcoming; underneath vines, carpet grass, wild grape, hibiscus and wood sorrel, the ground was as porous as a sieve.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

It’s about scoring, flair, finesse, getting to open space and making the world’s best goaltenders sometimes look like sieves.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

On the plant’s second floor, near a pile of burlap bags overflowing with rubble, two men sat on stools, armed with sieves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2020

Human beings do not exist in vacuums; we are sieves for the experiences, cultures and socioeconomic systems that entrap us.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2019

This kind of filtering is very different from the sieves and nets that human technology uses to separate out particles of a certain size.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2017

“We shoveled gravel through sieves for seven full hours with a half-hour break for lunch.”

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The fermented BSG is then dried, ground into a powder, sieved, and spun in a centrifuge to separate the protein, which would float to the top from the rest of the mixture.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024

The disturbed soil removed from the trenches is carefully sieved.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023

In 1962 Heinz Stolp, a researcher in Berlin, was searching for new viruses when he ran out of the filters that sieved them from his samples.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 5, 2022

Other condiments shunned by connoisseurs but enjoyed by many are sieved egg yolks, finely chopped egg whites, and minced onion or fresh-snipped chives.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021

The hole was a perfectly symmetrical inverted cone whose sides were smooth, as though finely sieved and raked.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Volunteers have been combing through sand and sieving water to find the plastic pellets.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2024

The successful sieving of the fuel molecules is achieved via selective proton transfers due to steric hindrance on holey graphene sheets that have chemical functionalization and act as proton-exchange membranes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023

“No amount of sieving, sherd counting, text criticism or ancient DNA analysis can alter that equation,” Greenberg says.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 11, 2022

“Children recognize sand as a creative material suitable for pouring, scooping, sieving, raking, and measuring,” it said.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

The stirring, sieving, settling, and bailing were repeated any number of times, until Min was satisfied with the residue.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park