sifter

Example Sentences

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Using a sifter, sprinkle two cups of powdered sugar onto the coated cereal and mix once again.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2025

Recumbent, he tosses a few handfuls of duff into a sifter fashioned from a cat litter box with its bottom cut out and replaced by a screen.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022

At an MHP grain processing center one hour east of Lviv, a truck filled with freshly harvested rapeseed — tiny, shiny and black — dumped its load into a sifter on a recent day.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022

For about 10 days, she has used sifter boxes and shovels — left by a friendly stranger — to search for anything left.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2018

I broke out the sifter, the mixing bowl, the mixer, some measuring cups, and the old wooden spoon my mother loved to use.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds