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sieve

[siv] / sɪv /
NOUN
strainer
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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.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

The average American home is about as airtight and well-insulated as a metal sieve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 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

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

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026

Around her, amid the red flags of labor unions, were the sounds of myriad utensils from a typical French kitchen: sieves, lids and frying pans banged in rhythm with metal and wooden spoons.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2023

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

On the plant’s second floor, near a pile of burlap bags overflowing with rubble, two men sat on stools, armed with sieves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2020

“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

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

“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

After sieving out the large particles, they filtered the water to collect the eDNA.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 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


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