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The average American home is about as airtight and well-insulated as a metal sieve.
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"The cover saved me a lot because after the Russian attack the car looked like a sieve."
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“This place leaks like a sieve,” he answered.
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A miracle required when your defence is populated by jittery players and leaks like a sieve.
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To save the gobies from that fate, scientists and citizen volunteers arrived on Jan. 17 and used giant nets that served as sieves to retrieve the fish that rarely exceed a length of two inches.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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