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Note: If the ricotta seems especially wet, drain it in a fine-mesh sieve before whipping.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

"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

A miracle required when your defence is populated by jittery players and leaks like a sieve.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025

Now as the vacuum-underground rushed him through the dead cellars of town, jolting him, he remembered the terrible logic of that sieve, and he looked down and saw that he was carrying the Bible open.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

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

Women quickly realized that the suit of armor was one of those kitchen sieves.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2022

This kind of filtering is very different from the sieves and nets that human technology uses to separate out particles of a certain size.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2017

Nearby, artisanal miners line river banks, armed with sieves, spades and buckets.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2017

“We shoveled gravel through sieves for seven full hours with a half-hour break for lunch.”

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Then the array of detached coils, capacitors, pins and transistors are sieved, sorted, sliced and diced as they move along a conveyor belt.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

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

He and the others sieved out insects and added water as needed.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

Trainees practiced slaking lime, sieving, mixing and preparing mortar while working on the gate.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2023

“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 sieving winnowed out tiny pebbles and other impurities.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park