sifter
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To the extent that there’s a new Tim Allen here, it’s the one who, thinking of his late wife, and the flour sifter he has taken care not to clean, he cries, almost, sort of.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025
Recumbent, he tosses a few handfuls of duff into a sifter fashioned from a cat litter box with its bottom cut out and replaced by a screen.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
This deeply decadent, fudgy chocolate cake takes just five ingredients and 20 minutes; no sifter, stand mixer, or double boiler in sight.
From Salon ● May 27, 2022
Putting the compost through a sifter will not increase its potency, but it will create a fine texture, breaking up moist clods and removing unwelcome items such as stones, bones and chunks of wood.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2016
Just recently, an official job called trash sifter had been created.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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Three men with metal detectors and sifters swept through the sand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Processing rooms hold sifters where Beta Hatch sorts the insects.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
There are sifters for sale, but anyone can make one.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2016
In that instance, the winner was not someone picked by the sifters.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2013
Lina hadn’t thought about it before, but now she wondered about the trash sifters.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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