How to Use sift in a Sentence

sift

verb

• Sift the lumps from the sugar.
• Sift the flour into a mixing bowl.
• The police sifted for clues.
• The lawyer sifted through the hundreds of pages of testimony.
• The police sifted the evidence in hopes of finding a clue.
• Firefighters sifted through the debris.
• Using a sifter or fine-mesh strainer, sift the flour over the bowl and whisk until almost smooth; a few small lumps are okay.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2022
• But large language models don’t sift through words during the inference process.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
• Using water to sift through the dense clay, the team searched for pieces of metal, glass or bone, no matter how small, that might have come from the crash.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2022
• Residents sift through the afrermath of yesterday's strike in Beirut.
  — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024
• Once your cat does its business, the litter is sifted, and the droppings or the clumps get pushed into a box and contained there for a few days.
  — Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
• Especially those of us born at the end of these histories (or after), destined to sift their debris.
  — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Researchers have also developed new analyses to better sift through haystacks of data to find proverbial needles.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
• The goal was to sift out possible killer asteroids from over 68 billion dots of cosmic light showcased in the images.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 31 May 2022
• Police Chief Scott Thurmond said at a news conference that police are still sifting through tips.
  — Kim Chandler, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
• Now, the group leading the lake’s cleanup wants to sift through other Northern California and Nevada lakes for trash.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2022
• These companies often have access to powerful machine learning software that can sift through huge numbers of transactions and look for leads.
  — Declan Harty, Fortune, 12 May 2022
• Large-scale philanthropists usually want to do more than sift through grant applications or distribute their largesse to the same set of beneficiaries year after year.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Outside in the yard are dozens of boxes, each containing bags of makeup products to sift through and organize, all retrieved from the Euphoria makeup trailer after filming wrapped.
  — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 13 May 2022
• The team examined raw satellite measurements and consulted with local public health officials, then used AI to sift through the data and pinpoint key features.
  — Rachel Berkowitz, Scientific American, 19 May 2022
• Pour a couple of drams worth and sift through the pages.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
• The not-so-good news is there's a lot of product to sift through.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2022
• Users sift through comments on videos to try to find the next part of the story.
  — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• His photo was one of the many that the star had to sift through and select from.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 10 June 2022
• Those who are on the hunt for new pieces to add to the bedroom will have tons to sift through as well.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2022
• There was some concern that the holes in the sifting tray would become clogged, but that wasn’t the case.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
• One downside is the bigger the crowd being sourced, the more data to sift.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
• The West Branch has a smaller collection for the public to sift through and check out.
  — Maddie Browning, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
• Best Overall Amazon Deals In a hurry and don’t have time to sift through all the deals?
  — Brittany Vanderbill, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2023
• There’s a lot to sift through in the final two possessions.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024