sieve

Example Sentences

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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

Strain through a fine mesh sieve, let cool and use the syrup however you see fit.

From Salon • May 6, 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

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