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.
• Users sift through comments on videos to try to find the next part of the story.
  — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• 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
• But that can also give recruiters more noise to sift through.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023
• Adults sift through the dust and rubble for anything worth salvaging.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
• The film sifts through all of this with clear eyes, imagination, and a lack of overt judgment.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
• Press one button to find filters, and use the arrows to sift through them and find your favorite.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
• There are endless bar carts to sift through online in every style, size, and price point.
  — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2023
• Muddle pepper flowers to crush and sift out large husks.
  — Judy Revenaugh, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• Pieces of waste were sometimes left in the litter box after sifting.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• If desired, sift powdered sugar over the pancakes and serve with warm maple syrup on the side for dipping.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• The coming week will be more about sifting through the wreckage of this match than worrying about the standings.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 16 Apr. 2023
• After finding the key (tucked in the shark's head), kids will love opening the chest and sifting through to find the treasure hidden in the golden sand.
  — Tanya Edwards, Parents, 4 Oct. 2023
• The weather service continues to sift through a pile of wind damage and hail reports from the past few days.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 17 June 2023
• But some of the survivors and Club Q regulars who had lost friends stayed to reconnect and sift through the fragments of that night.
  — Jack Healy, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022
• Then each must be harvested by hand, usually with a tiny brush, sifted, cleaned and left to dry in the sun.
  — Fernanda Pesce, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
• The seeds of those bulbs, after being sifted and pounded and cooked over the flame, yield a greenish porridge.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• In the first quarter, Bell sifted through traffic to chop quarterback Daniel Jones for a 4-yard loss on third-and-2.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Browsers arrived and began sifting through the volumes.
  — Lorna Parkes, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• Katherine Sterner and her students dig up a small pile of dirt every 15 meters and sift.
  — Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
• Finding a site that is actually worth staying at can take some time to sift through.
  — Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 19 Oct. 2023
• Scientists aboard a research vessel off the coast of Spain sifted through the rubble dumped from a trawling net.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 7 May 2024