WINNOW in a Sentence

Learn WINNOW from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for WINNOW, such as:

1. It's important to winnow truth from falsehood in scientific research.
2. Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three.
3. This test will winnow out the students who study from those who don't bother.
4. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.
5. He said that a wayfarer should meet me and ask me whether it was a winnowing shovel that I had on my shoulder.

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 Meanings and Examples of WINNOW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
winnow
 v.  blow away; separate good parts from bad; sort or select desirable; extract
Classic Sentence:
1  These I heated before the fire, as well as I could, and rubbed them till the husks came off, which I made a shift to winnow from the grain.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
2  He said that a wayfarer should meet me and ask me whether it was a winnowing shovel that I had on my shoulder.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIII
3  The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence:
1  The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.
2  It's important to winnow truth from falsehood in scientific research.
3  This test will winnow out the students who study from those who don't bother.
4  Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three.