sieve

"It was filthy, dirty and it leaked like a sieve for many years," he said in a White House video about the plan.

From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026

The average American home is about as airtight and well-insulated as a metal sieve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Strain through a fine mesh sieve, let cool and use the syrup however you see fit.

From Salon ● May 6, 2025

For decades, I’ve heard that the border is little better than a sieve through which millions of migrants easily pass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

His hands were tired, the sand was boiling, the sieve was empty.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

Like most locals, they searched for diamonds by hand - digging pits, hauling out soil and rock, washing it through sieves and carefully sifting through thousands of tiny stones once dried.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

It’s about scoring, flair, finesse, getting to open space and making the world’s best goaltenders sometimes look like sieves.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

Women quickly realized that the suit of armor was one of those kitchen sieves.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2022

“We shoveled gravel through sieves for seven full hours with a half-hour break for lunch.”

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The fermented BSG is then dried, ground into a powder, sieved, and spun in a centrifuge to separate the protein, which would float to the top from the rest of the mixture.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024

In 1962 Heinz Stolp, a researcher in Berlin, was searching for new viruses when he ran out of the filters that sieved them from his samples.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 5, 2022

Other condiments shunned by connoisseurs but enjoyed by many are sieved egg yolks, finely chopped egg whites, and minced onion or fresh-snipped chives.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021

A carpet of hard-boiled eggs is strewn across the top, the whites and yolks sieved separately.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2018

The hole was a perfectly symmetrical inverted cone whose sides were smooth, as though finely sieved and raked.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The successful sieving of the fuel molecules is achieved via selective proton transfers due to steric hindrance on holey graphene sheets that have chemical functionalization and act as proton-exchange membranes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023

The process of reverse osmosis passes seawater through a membrane, effectively sieving out impurities, while evaporation heats water until it vaporises and then condenses it, leaving behind any impurities.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022

“Children recognize sand as a creative material suitable for pouring, scooping, sieving, raking, and measuring,” it said.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

After sieving out the large particles, they filtered the water to collect the eDNA.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2021

The stirring, sieving, settling, and bailing were repeated any number of times, until Min was satisfied with the residue.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park