SIFT in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for SIFT, such as:

1. We will sift every scrap of evidence.
2. He sifted the relevant data from the rest.
3. Satan desires to have ye, and sift ye as wheat.
4. Computers are being used to sift the information.
5. The troops, sifting through the forest, were sullen.

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 Meanings and Examples of SIFT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sift
 v.  separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the course; examine critically or minutely; scrutinize
Classic Sentence:
1  It was, of course, not a thing even to be talked of lightly; it was a thing they would have to sift to the bottom.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  Satan desires to have ye, and sift ye as wheat.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  And she was sent into the kitchen, and made to fetch wood and water, to blow the fire, pluck the poultry, pick the herbs, sift the ashes, and do all the dirty work.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CAT-SKIN
4  The songs are indeed the siftings of centuries; the music is far more ancient than the words, and in it we can trace here and there signs of development.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIV
5  The meal sifted out and made a little track all the way to the lake.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
6  There was freckled places on the ground where the light sifted down through the leaves, and the freckled places swapped about a little, showing there was a little breeze up there.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
7  Clifford had had it newly gravelled with sifted gravel from the pit-bank.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  It always pleased Connie, this underfoot of sifted, bright pink.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  She visioned the fire-box: flames turned to lemon and metallic gold as the coal-dust sifted over them; thin twisty flutters of purple, ghost flames which gave no light, slipping up between the dark banked coals.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  The three men left the bar and the crowd sifted through the doors in to the laneway.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
11  This was because all who began to grow depressed or who lost strength were sifted out of the army day by day.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER VIII
12  Snow was sifting over the ridge of the Howland house like sprays of water from a hose.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  The troops, sifting through the forest, were sullen.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  Miss Ophelia lifted out the sifting papers of sweet herbs.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence:
1  We will sift every scrap of evidence.
2  Computers are being used to sift the information.
3  We have to sift through the application forms very carefully to separate the wheat from the chaff.
4  He sifted the relevant data from the rest.
5  Police are sifting through the evidence in the hope of finding more clues.
6  He lay on the beach, sifting the sand through his fingers.
7  Crash investigators have been sifting through the wreckage of the aircraft.