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

That could have maybe turned into something, but Chelsea wants the sieve, she wants to pour down the plug hole.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 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

"If you imagine the lungs like a sieve, smoking will break holes in the sieve, so more can get through," says Prof Tregoning.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

I do as I’m told and fold the curtains and the shirts, my bravado leaking out like water through a sieve.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron