sifter
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Using a sifter, sprinkle two cups of powdered sugar onto the coated cereal and mix once again.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025
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
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
At an MHP grain processing center one hour east of Lviv, a truck filled with freshly harvested rapeseed — tiny, shiny and black — dumped its load into a sifter on a recent day.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
I broke out the sifter, the mixing bowl, the mixer, some measuring cups, and the old wooden spoon my mother loved to use.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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
A broad Choctaw basket collected in Mississippi resembles the sifters that Naquin’s family used when catching shrimp.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2017
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
