Synonyms of sieve

sieve

verb

as in to filter

Related Words

• filter
• sift
• screen
• strain
• sediment
• lay
• clarify
• settle
• clear
• resettle

Dissimilar Words

• raise
• stir
• mix
• disturb
• agitate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sieve

After sufficient brewing time, pour the tea into the pitcher through a fine mesh filter or sieve to remove the loose leaves or take out and throw out the whole tea bags. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 19 June 2026

Creativity is not just some commodity, trapped in the imagination, that can be tapped and sieved by technology. — John Semley, Wired News, 1 Apr. 2026

The mixture is then sieved to produce a smooth, drinkable liquid. — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 29 Jan. 2026

The combine then automatically calibrates variables like rotor speed, fan speed and sieve clearances to produce those outcomes. — Michael L. Millenson, Forbes.com, 13 Jan. 2026

The light here is dazzling, even more so when sieved through lime and olive leaves and wooden canopies to dance on walls, terracotta tables, and guests’ faces. — Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026

Traitors is about the gullible and the skeptical working together to sieve the fraudulent from the truthful, an amalgamated nightmare of village idiots locking themselves in the stocks and pelting each other with rotten fruit. — Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2026

These recordings function like a kind of filter or sieve, retaining one part of us while the rest is allowed to drain away. — Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025

Our students have spent hundreds of hours focusing on the fossils retrieved after sieving. — Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024