sifter
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Lay your paper heart or other design atop the cake, load up a couple tablespoons of powdered confectioners’ sugar into a sifter or fine-mesh sieve, and let it snow.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
For instance, if you're using oat flour or mesquite flour, you will want to use a sifter, as these flours tend to clump.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2021
For about 10 days, she has used sifter boxes and shovels — left by a friendly stranger — to search for anything left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2018
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
Amazon provided kits to help prepare for wildfire season — including shovels, rakes, sifters, gloves and masks.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Three men with metal detectors and sifters swept through the sand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
There are sifters for sale, but anyone can make one.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2016
I remember judging a short-story prize where the organisers were so overwhelmed with the number of entries, they employed sifters to reduce the number to an amount they thought the judges could read.
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
