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.
• 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
• Good luck trying to sift through those options and make the right choice.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2022
• 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
• And on others, Poles is going to have a whole list of challenges to sift through.
  — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2022
• But that can also give recruiters more noise to sift through.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023
• Thomas was sifting through a box next to the migrant women.
  — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
• Adults sift through the dust and rubble for anything worth salvaging.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
• The bad news, however, is there are way too many sales to sift through and deals to inspect.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 21 Sep. 2022
• The film sifts through all of this with clear eyes, imagination, and a lack of overt judgment.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
• Just sift through the selection to find the quantity that suits you.
  — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 28 July 2024
• To sift through all of your archived photos from the 1990s seems like such an arduous task.
  — Rachel Burchfield, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2022
• Press one button to find filters, and use the arrows to sift through them and find your favorite.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
• This would have given room for ice crystals to form in the air, allowing the light to sift through them.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Mar. 2022
• Sift the flour into a small bowl, measure it again and then sift the flour again with the cornstarch and the baking powder.
  — Carol Deptolla, Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2022
• The First Amendment depends on an unconstrained marketplace of ideas to sift truth from falsehood.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 6 Nov. 2024
• Today a herpetologist can identify each frog, toad and salamander in a creek by sifting through snippets of DNA in the merest vial of water.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024