sieve

"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

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 front door was open, so the voices floated out the screen door like water through a sieve.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

Citizen scientists will then be encouraged to gather sediment from rooftops and gutters and use magnets, sieves, and microscopes provided by the project to isolate potential micrometeorites.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026

But soon after the scientists — of the trained, in-training and citizen variety — shimmied large nets that functioned as sieves into the brackish water, gleeful cries began to ring out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

Women quickly realized that the suit of armor was one of those kitchen sieves.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2022

In a meeting the next day, Sanders admonished her team of sieves and added for good measure that “I’m sure this conversation is going to leak, too,” which naturally ensured you-know-what.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2018

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

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

A carpet of hard-boiled eggs is strewn across the top, the whites and yolks sieved separately.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2018

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

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

After sieving out the large particles, they filtered the water to collect the eDNA.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2021

The sieving winnowed out tiny pebbles and other impurities.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park