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sieve

noun as in strainer

Strongest match

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Example Sentences

Ladle the stock through a large cheesecloth-lined fine-mesh sieve set over a clean pot or large bowl.

All these processes require filtering the raw data through a personal sieve, sculpted by the language and culture of our times.

Yes, any old bowl or sieve could be used for these tasks, but this cheery set motivates me to cook and entices me to fill them up with new recipes, keeping pandemic cooking fatigue away.

From Eater

Gallinari and Bogdanović aren’t sieves, but they also aren’t the pieces a team would build a defense-first culture around.

This simply means a purifier pushes air through a physical filter that catches airborne particles, in essentially the same way a sieve removes particles when you pour water through it.

From Fortune

Next to it, a car was perforated with bullet holes like a makeshift sieve.

Press the mixture into a sieve with the back of the spoon to squeeze out the liquid then add 1tsp of honey.

If you find your pumpkin to have too much water after you cook the flesh, strain it in a sieve or cheesecloth.

Pass through a fine-meshed sieve, season with salt and pepper, and reserve, chilled.

For years, Greece has been a sieve for irregular migrants who want to make their way to Europe.

"I remember seeing an old broken sieve around the ranch house somewhere," Grace suggested helpfully.

In his brain the ideas performed their evolutions with the rapidity of hollow straws around a sieve.

Do you know what clays it sinks through, as if they were a sieve, and what stops it like an iron door?

Take some more tongue, pound and pass it through a sieve and mix it with the forcemeat.

Reduce and simmer till it is thick, then pass through a sieve, and take it off the fire before it boils.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sieve, such as: colander, basket, filter, mesh, screen, and sifter.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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