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
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
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
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
In the parking lot of the market, there were bundles of clothing, toys for children, pet food, shovels and sifters, and boxes of food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2017
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
