winnowings

How to use winnowings in a sentence

• Very frequently these winnowings are ground and placed on the market.

  Birds and Nature Vol. 9 No. 3 [March 1901] | Various

• Then we suddenly become butterflies; and forget, in our volatile winnowings, all the horrors that we have experienced.

  A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)

• It meant that she was a thing utterly useless, absolutely worthless; the very refuse of the winnowings of the flail of fate.

  Folle-Farine | Ouida