sieve
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"It was filthy, dirty and it leaked like a sieve for many years," he said in a White House video about the plan.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
The average American home is about as airtight and well-insulated as a metal sieve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
If you want a silky texture, strain through a fine-mesh sieve.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2025
"If you imagine the lungs like a sieve, smoking will break holes in the sieve, so more can get through," says Prof Tregoning.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
Tab’s mom grabbed her purse from between her feet, unzipped it, and pulled out a small metal sieve.
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
Like most locals, they searched for diamonds by hand - digging pits, hauling out soil and rock, washing it through sieves and carefully sifting through thousands of tiny stones once dried.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
To save the gobies from that fate, scientists and citizen volunteers arrived on Jan. 17 and used giant nets that served as sieves to retrieve the fish that rarely exceed a length of two inches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
Women quickly realized that the suit of armor was one of those kitchen sieves.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2022
This kind of filtering is very different from the sieves and nets that human technology uses to separate out particles of a certain size.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2017
“We shoveled gravel through sieves for seven full hours with a half-hour break for lunch.”
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The fermented BSG is then dried, ground into a powder, sieved, and spun in a centrifuge to separate the protein, which would float to the top from the rest of the mixture.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024
In 1962 Heinz Stolp, a researcher in Berlin, was searching for new viruses when he ran out of the filters that sieved them from his samples.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 5, 2022
Other condiments shunned by connoisseurs but enjoyed by many are sieved egg yolks, finely chopped egg whites, and minced onion or fresh-snipped chives.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
A carpet of hard-boiled eggs is strewn across the top, the whites and yolks sieved separately.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2018
He and the others sieved out insects and added water as needed.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
Volunteers have been combing through sand and sieving water to find the plastic pellets.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2024
The successful sieving of the fuel molecules is achieved via selective proton transfers due to steric hindrance on holey graphene sheets that have chemical functionalization and act as proton-exchange membranes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023
“Children recognize sand as a creative material suitable for pouring, scooping, sieving, raking, and measuring,” it said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
After sieving out the large particles, they filtered the water to collect the eDNA.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2021
The stirring, sieving, settling, and bailing were repeated any number of times, until Min was satisfied with the residue.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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