How to Use sifting in a Sentence

sifting

noun

• Recipes that do require sifting are more likely to be delicate, airy desserts like angel food cake.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2023
• Since then, careful sifting has yielded bones from a wide range of local animal species.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• While that may be OK for cakes, sifting helps ensure a good structure of the cookie.
  — Tricia Manzanero Stuedeman, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2025
• This is a hire of the court and the sifting and winnowing of candidates should include court members.
  — Jack Kelly and Matthew Defour, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023
• Though sifting has been used in other papers, it had never been tried on the three-term progression problem.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• Ng and her colleagues worked in ten-centimetre increments, digging and sifting.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
• Relatedly, coders can help develop the algorithms that will do that sifting.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• Not that Ferrell was averse to a careful re-sifting of the historical evidence.
  — James Grant, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
• No more sifting through your purse or makeup bag for your favorite lip gloss and liner, these see-thru organizers will keep your essentials in perfect view.
  — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 9 Apr. 2020
• Overall, the set highlights his unique sifting of country, rock and soul elements and his ability to fuse them with his muscular vocal.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 8 July 2024
• A lot of the sifting involves pressing triggers to cycle through sub-menus within a specific screen and toggling between characters within those sub-menus.
  — David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
• Yet performance art is found in Laib’s ritualistic gathering, sifting and pouring.
  — Associated Press, WIRED, 20 June 2001
• Nonetheless, just as mud is a good place to find gold nuggets, Netflix, with some careful sifting, is a good place to find great movies, and a viewer with no other platforms at hand could keep busy and happy there for quite a while.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2020
• Automatic litter box Automatic litter boxes handle the scooping and sifting of post-potty litter for you.
  — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
• The sharply dueling narratives showed that the impeachment battle will be one of bitter political messaging as much as impartial sifting of evidence.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2019
• Subsequent sifting of data of the Cassini mission, which ended in 2017, has only added to the curiosity of what lies beneath.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• And while some enjoy the treasure-hunt vibe of spending a Saturday afternoon sifting through items at their local Goodwill store, others might be scared off by the time investment required to do that.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• Landlubber options include an excellent half-pound burger paved with Gruyère and enlivened by tarragon mayo, the accompanying fries given a sifting of Cajun spices.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 10 July 2019
• Weeks of planning — following weeks of sifting — led a woman to an unforgettable find at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas.
  — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025
• But without the human sifting element that's an automatic part of a normal Google search, the AI Overview is often going to end up confused, flat, or outright wrong.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
• Routine tasks, data sifting and compliance checks will increasingly fall to intelligent agents, freeing up human experts to focus on creativity, strategy and trust-building.
  — Dhivya Nagasubramanian, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
• The children take turns dumping their baskets over a rudimentary sifting tool — a large piece of netting with a wooden frame — that reveals handfuls of mica, a shimmery mineral composite that’s been forming underground for hundreds of years.
  — Lexy Lebsack, refinery29.com, 31 May 2020