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    1. Simmer them slowly for about an hour and then strain through a fine sieve or cloth


    2. The proper season is when the weather is very dry; the special days are those when the moon is in the constellations of the Sieve, the Wall, the Wing or the Cross-bar; for these four are all days of rising wind


    3. stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity, and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the


    4. I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall on the ground


    5. 4 As when one sifts with a sieve, the refuse remains; so the filth of man in his talk


    6. Strain through a hair sieve, and serve the clear liquid after boiling up


    7. Rub through a sieve


    8. Line a sieve with cheesecloth or paper towels and suspend it over a bowl


    9. Pour the yogurt into the sieve and allow it to drain, refrigerated, for 3 hours or overnight


    10. Pouring the hot contents through a fine meshed sieve into a heatproof glass bowl she allowed it to cool

    11. The two ZEROs, flying side by side, opened fire well before she did, strafing the headquarters building and turning it into a sieve


    12. He felt immense satisfaction as he opened fire, spraying the barges and the soldiers inside with over eighty heavy slugs per second and also turning at the same time the hull of the transport ship into a sieve


    13. schools, and focusing on education itself, would act as a sort of sieve


    14. The few ideas that pass through the small holes left by the sieve of


    15. “What did you use on that Iroquois? He looks like a sieve


    16. Israel among all nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, but not a


    17. Use a fine-mesh sieve to scatter compost


    18. covered with finely sieved (3 mm mesh sieve) mixture of 3 parts of farmyard manure and 2


    19. Strain out any lumps through a sieve


    20. Dry the food, then pound, sieve and store in an airtight

    21. Pound into flour, then sieve and store


    22. rating with the false impression of a simple sieve or screen that absolutely retains particles sized


    23. When he prepared the horse place very well in a way that the horse can lie on very comfortably, he turned and requested for animal’s feed and a sieve to sieve out un expected materials like small stones and all the like


    24. Discard the remaining “material” that pulls from the sieve


    25. Run the tomatoes through a food mill or mesh sieve


    26. Using a sieve, remove barley from the water and transfer to a bowl


    27. After he had prepared a place for his horse to rest, he asked the servants to bring him a quantity of fodder and a sieve for sifting out small stones, so he could feed his horse


    28. The servants brought a sieve to clean the fodder as he had requested, he then put the hay and barley into the sieve and sifted it, then removed a great number of small stones which would have caused his horse a lot of pain while chewing its food and would probably break its teeth


    29. With firm confidence, Sheikh Keftaro smiled and turned calmly to his disciples, and said, “A perforation does not cause any damage to a sieve


    30. Place the grated cucumber into a sieve

    31. Scrape up the juices in the roasting pan and sieve them into a saucepan


    32. Sieve the flour into a mixing bowl


    33. These sieves are designated by sieve size


    34. sieve with SQUARES of 0


    35. To one who would watch the sieve through which justice vigorously tries to separate the wheat from the chaff, the innocent from the guilty, a visit to General Sessions is the best means


    36. If the sauce still has pieces of tomato, pass through a sieve before bottling and storing in the refrigerator for up to two weeks


    37. Sieve: A strainer; a tool for separating flour from bran; or the fine substance from the coarse; that which retains the corn, and shakes out the chaff


    38. morning with a large sieve we constructed, running sand


    39. For to say a person dies, and then assert the “real person’ does not die, as is urged, if fallacious reasoning, and he who can establish such a presumption could draw water with a sieve, call up the “spirit” of “Samuel


    40. through a sieve; add lemon juice; salt; and sweeten if necessary; heat

    41. "When I went to give it to her," replied Sancho, "she was hard at it swaying from side to side with a lot of wheat she had in the sieve, and she said to me, 'Lay the letter, friend, on the top of that sack, for I cannot read it until I have done sifting all this


    42. "So that's the story, master barber," said Don Quixote, "which came in so pat to the purpose that you could not help telling it? Master shaver, master shaver! how blind is he who cannot see through a sieve


    43. Don Quixote was left with a face as full of holes as a sieve and a nose not in very good condition, and greatly vexed that they did not let him finish the battle he had been so stoutly fighting with that villain of an enchanter


    44. But about the wicked there is another strain; they bury them in a slough in Hades, and make them carry water in a sieve; also while they are yet living they bring them to infamy, and inflict upon them the punishments which Glaucon described as the portion of the just who are reputed to be unjust; nothing else does their invention supply


    45. Levin had ended the row he was in a great heat, and he stopped and gave up the sieve to Vassily


    46. The lighter was leaking like a sieve


    47. It's a miracle that Monygham, standing on the after-hatch with the rope already round his neck, escaped being riddled through and through like a sieve


    48. It came to a boil faster than expected; he found himself rushing around in stocking feet, looking for something to strain it through, a colander or sieve or any other porous vessel his wife might not have thought to deprive him of


    49. Save the bonito that’s left in the sieve


    50. Sift through a fine sieve with a sifting cloth and store in an airtight container in the fridge













    1. buried by mounds of mole plumed and sieved earth


    2. the water sieved around my body, and drained off the deck


    3. Dust the paratha with finely sieved whole wheat flour and roll into


    4. As much information as he could possibly gather together had been sieved through and the essential information filtered out and put in summary form as a bulletin e-mail to all his team, printed off and posted on the incident whiteboard on the stage in the hall


    5. However, just before the attack, she hissed again and made a sound of raspberry, when simultaneously her body was sieved through by a thick light beam of another spotlight


    6. No sooner had his numb body hit the roof than the bullet from Dan’s pistol sieved through the creature’s head


    7. He sieved a deep sigh then continued his comments


    8. covered with finely sieved (3 mm mesh sieve) mixture of 3 parts of farmyard manure and 2


    9. He sieved out a great quantity of small stones from the food, which would have been worrying the horse during mastication


    10. Bashaa used to feed his animals with it not sieved and they were chewing it with difficulties especially when the small stone contacted with the teeth molars

    11. A tear from his eye sieved right through my shirt reaching my heart as he spoke softly “you can never do that to me


    12. His boots trod again a damp crackling mast, razorshells, squeaking pebbles, that on the unnumbered pebbles beats, wood sieved by the shipworm, lost Armada


    13. He had mined and sieved the databases, looking for intersecting lines between stabbings of women in San Francisco on May twelfth, as well as murders, bank robberies, domestic violence, and more traffic accidents than I would have thought possible


    1. Grain was sorted in hand sieves and


    2. Eleven Browning M2 heavy machine guns and twelve MG42 medium machine guns firing from three different directions turned the remaining four trucks full of troops into sieves within seconds and making minced meat of their occupants


    3. Loose dirt and smaller debris fell through the sieves, and creatures that appeared to be over-sized and misshapen simians (if one did not look too closely) crouched around each screen platform, snatching larger rocks and roots and clods of dirt and flinging them away


    4. These sieves are designated by sieve size


    5. plastic sieves are best since iron or tin will turn the rosey orange pulp


    6. The many squanderers have not only poured their streams into sieves which can never be filled-they have done worse: they have poured them into stagnant sewers that breed the diseases which most afflict the body politic


    7. That task is performed with eleven strainers, or sieves, that are pierced with different numbers of holes


    8. Those not slipping through the sieves pierced with 100 to 800 holes are in the second order


    9. The workers were bent over in the extreme heat, laboring with pickaxes and sieves


    1. All ultrafiltration devices work primarily by a molecular sieving principle


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    Synonyms for "sieve"

    screen sieve sift strain screen out sort distil purify filtrate refine filter separate

    "sieve" definitions

    a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles


    examine in order to test suitability


    check and sort carefully


    separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements


    distinguish and separate out