You could use a tea-strainer to remove the bits of sage leaf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lauds] Reference

"So clever, the way you trapped that last one with the tea-strainer -".    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]

After I gave up on finding the part that the bandsaw flung across the room, I got a new tea-strainer spoon to dismantle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Dressed Award] Reference

Smiley was amused by the immaculate condition of the tray cloth, by the matching china and tea-strainer, laid before them by the enormous hands of the cadet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Murder of Quality]

Fill the crater of the cake with the whipped cream, easing it out gently towards the edges of the cake, and dust the top lightly with cocoa powder pushed through a tea-strainer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supremely Decadent Chocolate Cloud Cake] Reference

Johnny saw a pail of water, dipped a tea-strainer into it, and dashed two drops in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dotty Dimple At Home] Reference

Strain milk mixture through a tea-strainer into a measuring cup, pressing the teabags with the back of a spoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes from the Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table] Reference

He raised his Athenian eyebrows, and she realized what a mistake she had made in not bringing the lethal tea-strainer along.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Air] Reference

He still held in his hand the old tea-strainer which he had been grasping when they rescued him; he had held on to it convulsively all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03] Reference

In one of his letters he describes himself and Bentley fishing in the pond for goldfish with "nothing but a pail and a basin and a tea-strainer, which I persuade my neighbours is the Chinese method.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Letters] Reference

You would be entertained with our fishing; instead of nets, and rods and lines, and worms, we use nothing but a pail and a basin and a tea-strainer, which I persuade my neighbours is the Chinese method.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference

He was just scraping the jelly out of a tart when they disturbed him; and knowing that more slaps were in store for him if he stayed, he at once walked calmly down the ravaged table, and vanished out of the window carrying the silver tea-strainer with him to play with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School] Reference

Before Claire could kill her -- there wasn't any homicidal weapon in sight except a silver tea-strainer -- Mrs. Corey had pirouetted on, "Though I do think that we're much too kind to workmen and all -- the labor situation is getting to be abominable here in the West, and upon my word, to keep a maid nowadays, you have to treat her as though she were a countess.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Air] Reference

Normally, I mill my own mechanisms, but in this case, I was looking at my tea-strainer and darn if the thing wasn’t the right size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Lake Colon Build: Day 1] Reference