sieve
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"It was filthy, dirty and it leaked like a sieve for many years," he said in a White House video about the plan.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
The average American home is about as airtight and well-insulated as a metal sieve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Strain through a fine mesh sieve, let cool and use the syrup however you see fit.
From Salon ● May 6, 2025
Yoakam’s “Greater Bakersfield” is the sieve through which much of “Brighter Days” filtered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
His hands were tired, the sand was boiling, the sieve was empty.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
Like most locals, they searched for diamonds by hand - digging pits, hauling out soil and rock, washing it through sieves and carefully sifting through thousands of tiny stones once dried.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
Around her, amid the red flags of labor unions, were the sounds of myriad utensils from a typical French kitchen: sieves, lids and frying pans banged in rhythm with metal and wooden spoons.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2023
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
It’s as quiet as a chess tournament except for the clinking of hammers, the shaking of sieves, and the low buzz of conversation between colleagues.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Then the array of detached coils, capacitors, pins and transistors are sieved, sorted, sliced and diced as they move along a conveyor belt.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024
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
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
He and the others sieved out insects and added water as needed.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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
Trainees practiced slaking lime, sieving, mixing and preparing mortar while working on the gate.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2023
“Children recognize sand as a creative material suitable for pouring, scooping, sieving, raking, and measuring,” it said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
After sieving out the large particles, they filtered the water to collect the eDNA.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 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
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