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

If you want a silky texture, strain through a fine-mesh sieve.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2025

Yoakam’s “Greater Bakersfield” is the sieve through which much of “Brighter Days” filtered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

After three times through the sieve, the clay was noticeably smoother, with a silky touch as light as feathers.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

They will also provide equipment including magnets and sieves for the citizen scientists.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026

But soon after the scientists — of the trained, in-training and citizen variety — shimmied large nets that functioned as sieves into the brackish water, gleeful cries began to ring out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 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

Human beings do not exist in vacuums; we are sieves for the experiences, cultures and socioeconomic systems that entrap us.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2019

It’s as quiet as a chess tournament except for the clinking of hammers, the shaking of sieves, and the low buzz of conversation between colleagues.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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

“No amount of sieving, sherd counting, text criticism or ancient DNA analysis can alter that equation,” Greenberg says.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 11, 2022

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

From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 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