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
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
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
Dogs, Iambs, and little pigs suddenly disappeared under waves of heavy goo, and some s.orytellers said you could actually hear the landscape burp contentedly sifter such a meal.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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
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
