sifter

Example Sentences

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To the extent that there’s a new Tim Allen here, it’s the one who, thinking of his late wife, and the flour sifter he has taken care not to clean, he cries, almost, sort of.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 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

Putting the compost through a sifter will not increase its potency, but it will create a fine texture, breaking up moist clods and removing unwelcome items such as stones, bones and chunks of wood.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2016

Reading the fine print of your mortality is a great sifter of rubbish.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2015

The pantry door opened sifter a while, and his mother came back into the kitchen.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt