Verb (used with object) : to sift sugar onto cake. ,The detectives are still sifting the evidence. From Dictionary.com.
I have a feeling they ` re going to resift the area. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2009] Reference
Sift the flour and salt together and resift into the butter mixture. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Pull Up a Chair…] Reference
And the mayor says the city does not plan to resift the now buried debris. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2003] Reference
Iain Dale was shafted by this system, following a bloody great row and a resift. From Wordnik.com. [Maidstone and the Weald: Dale Over and Out] Reference
The door is open for Barwell, the Tory Fixer, in Croydon Central, taking pressure off Maidstone for an unsift and a resift. From Wordnik.com. [Iain Dale: Doughty Street's Goose is Cooked] Reference
Figures, figures, thousands of figures to sift and resift. From Wordnik.com. [Half a Rogue] Reference
Directions: Sift flour, measure, resift twice with the next 4 ingredients (old cookbook directions, who does this anyway?), the last time into a 2-qt mixing bowl. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Peace, ye Patriots, nevertheless; and let that tocsin cease: the Debate is not finished, nor the Report accepted; but Brissot, Isnard and the Mountain will sift it, and resift it, perhaps for some three weeks longer. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
When one considers impartially, the merit of a rich suit of clothes in most places, the respect and the smiles of favour it procures, not to speak of the envy and the sighs it occasions (which is very often the principal charm to the wearer), one is forced to confess, that there is need of an uncommon understanding to resift the temptation of pleasing friends and mortifying rivals; and that it is natural to young people to fall into a folly, which betrays them to that want of money which is the source of a thousand basenesses (sic). From Wordnik.com. [Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e]
Add the salt to the flour and resift. From Wordnik.com. [I Speak of Dreams] Reference
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