sift
Example Sentences
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Therapy, alongside lots of "painful" conversations with her daughter, has helped them to start sifting through their "family messiness and complexity".
From BBC
The Colonel’s at his desk, sifting through a pile of papers, putting some into a red box.
From Literature
The final step, sifting, is the least glamorous but perhaps the most consequential: refining what has been unearthed.
Across the U.S., retail employees have been sifting through state-issued flow charts, scanning product bar codes and checking ingredient lists across thousands of goods in stores.
How am I supposed to sift through all of this?
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
