winnow

How to use winnow in a sentence

The blasts of adversity were necessary to winnow the spurious and false away, and to leave the tried and true behind.

The corn thrashed out is cleared away by the men, others winnow it, others heap it, others supply fresh layers.

These had lived there so long as to be able to winnow the chaff and throw the refuse off.

Wer't nae for thy girning face I would knock the big, winnow the corn, and grun the meal!

This seems unlikely, unless it can be shown that Winwaloe and Winnow or Winoc were the same person.

But it is no very difficult task to winnow the chaff from the wheat, and the result will amply repay the labor.

Do but winnow their chaff from their wheat, ye shall see their great heap shrink and wax thin, past belief.

It is like sifting gold out of sand; to reach one heresy you must winnow away a thousand pious works.

Real "agriculture" is not pleasant; much pleasanter to reap and winnow (with ballot-box or otherwise) than to plough!

The following morning the priestess removes the little leaf packages and, placing them on a rice winnow, tosses them into the air.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985