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sift
verb as in take out residue; remove impurities
Example Sentences
In a video shared by the president, emergency workers could be seen sifting through the rubble as they continued to search for victims on Tuesday morning.
“We have to sift through different layers of information and try to read between the lines to actually find out about the exact nature of the collections and where they are from.”
As Jensen used a window screen to sift the safe’s ashen contents for diamonds and stones, his wife Dawn DaMart wandered the blackened foundation searching for tokens of the couple’s life before the Mountain fire.
She visited the site of the house on Thursday afternoon for the first time with a shovel in her hand, sifting through the smoldering ashes looking for anything of sentimental interest.
“It was a matter of sifting through and figuring out what I needed to complete Johnny’s story.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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