sieve

Example Sentences

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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

It’s a kind of medievalism, in other words, that seems to have passed through a sieve of Jane Austen or Emily Brontë; now you can see it in the works of medieval-themed romantasy novels.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024

His hands would be swollen and painful from sifting the heavy, wet soil through his sieve.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince