Verb (used with object) : to sift sugar onto cake. ,The detectives are still sifting the evidence. From Dictionary.com.
I saw him pull out a small stack of mail and begin sifting through it. From Wordnik.com. [Whitmore, 1969] Reference
The outcome of the sifting is a prioritised folder arrangement which reflects and promotes effective time management. From Wordnik.com. [davidrothman.net » 5 Best Tips for Reducing RSS Information Overload] Reference
Josh Levs has been kind of sifting through all of them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2008] Reference
So we are not to be "sifting" our brothers and sisters. From Wordnik.com. [Judging (Not)] Reference
Just kind of sifting the charges and the countercharges. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King's Killer: 'Hellhound On His Trail' Tells Story Of The Infamous James Earl Ray] Reference
STRANGER: I mean such as sifting, straining, winnowing, threshing. From Wordnik.com. [The Sophist] Reference
Web 2.0 is also about mass collaboration, such as sifting through documents or carrying out research. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Attractor » 2007 » October] Reference
That "sifting" might change from a small affair to a large one, as a snowball may grow into an avalanche. From Wordnik.com. [A Dixie School Girl] Reference
D. is in Comparative Literature, a field which provides excellent training for the kind of sifting and sorting she does now. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Who’s Laughing Now] Reference
No one knows how the series in Crowley and Lowery were selected, but one presumes that a little "sifting" might have taken place. From Wordnik.com. [Ferson et al. on Interactions between Data Mining and Spurious Regression « Climate Audit] Reference
You can see, I mean, it doesn't look like a house, it looks like a landfill is out here, and people are kind of sifting through it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2005] Reference
Came glinting, sifting from the Americas. From Wordnik.com. [POEMS BY SEAMUS HEANEY, 1966-1972] Reference
There remained after the "sifting" many societies, of one of which William. From Wordnik.com. [Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates] Reference
If you have ever seen a kite come down when the wind has died out, you will understand exactly what this "sifting" is. From Wordnik.com. [Dick Hamilton's Airship, or, a Young Millionaire in the Clouds] Reference
The "sifting" by fire ever goes along with the advance of the Spirit, and consumes all who will not appropriate the latter. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.] Reference
The FBI began closing in, bugging his phone and sifting through his garbage. From Wordnik.com. [How Ames Fooled The Cia] Reference
I don't mind strangers (even wearing latex gloves) sifting through my possessions. From Wordnik.com. [SPREAD YOUR LEGS, AND SMILE!] Reference
I (literally) bumped into British actor Alan Rickman sifting through organic spices. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Time For The Finer Things] Reference
A decade earlier, admissions officers were sifting through about 2,800 applications. From Wordnik.com. [25 New Ivies] Reference
Perhaps sifting through the autopsy report will save the life of the next climate bill. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Sandler: CSI: DC -- Investigating the Grisly Murder of a Climate Bill Gone Wrong] Reference
A few days after the debate, George Stephanopoulos was sifting through his in-box when he gave a yelp. From Wordnik.com. [Kid Gloves] Reference
Through the years I think Americans have gotten, if anything, better and better at sifting out this stuff. From Wordnik.com. [A Shockproof Electorate] Reference
The discussions read like a bleak two-character play, with the ex-lovers sifting the shards of their affair. From Wordnik.com. [An Affair To Forget] Reference
We also have read of the sifting and rejecting of this grand issue and that as a prospective historical hit. From Wordnik.com. [Rim Shots At History] Reference
Outside the archaearium, you can walk up to the edge of the pit where Kelso and his team are digging and sifting. From Wordnik.com. [Jamestown, Virginia: How To Make History Cool] Reference
If the Internet is such a boon, why is sifting through all the information it brings to our fingertips so laborious?. From Wordnik.com. [Like A Super Hero] Reference
Allegiances are a constantly sifting thing, perhaps nowhere more so than in the recently "liberated" towns and villages. From Wordnik.com. ['I Would Smash His Head In Again If I Could'] Reference
And what's to come may not be enough for America's wounded allies, who are sifting through the tea leaves for signs of change. From Wordnik.com. [The Oval: Bush's Fresh Start] Reference
But even if there was some point to sifting through the evidence again, he believes a truth commission is the wrong body to do it. From Wordnik.com. [How To Mend A Massacre] Reference
I also love sifting through the treasures at home stores like Miss Pixie's Furnishings & Whatnot and Millennium Decorative Arts. From Wordnik.com. [Going Out Guide for July 24, 2010] Reference
One administration staffer admits that "in sifting through resume's, you get to the point where you're not even looking at white men.". From Wordnik.com. [White Male Paranoia] Reference
Ultimately, it may take further sifting of the hard evidence before investigators can determine what really happened at Nasoor Square. From Wordnik.com. [Death From All Sides] Reference
Its diamond industry is highly decentralized, with thousands of miners sifting through alluvial soil for the gem that will make them rich. From Wordnik.com. [Sifting Through A Dark Business] Reference
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