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    sifting example sentences

    sifting


    1. Bolt stands at the front of a line of customers, sifting through some photos


    2. Israel is sifted through all nations, but God is not only sifting Israel


    3. He is sifting the hearts of those nations


    4. He was sifting the data in various ways, trying to reconcile it with observed course corrections in the impactors


    5. He had finally isolated some changes in some pulse trains that corresponded to course corrections on the impactors, he was still sifting the data for more


    6. ’ He replied, sifting through the heap of music on the piano


    7. Mandy and Belle published notices of hiring for the 'Concessions,' and Sarah Bunker assisted them in sifting through the applications for the most likely candidates based upon her firsthand knowledge of her former students


    8. Cupid unzipped the bag and began sifting through the contents while Sebastian turned to collect ammunition from his dresser


    9. sifting it slowly through his fingers, "and it'll fetch seventy-four


    10. Spend hours sifting through resumes or job applications

    11. Sifting through all of those


    12. Refraining from asking in what way it could help, she could sense her companion’s mind still sifting through the tale she had told, her grandmother’s injustice and Annyeke’s own long-held rage


    13. Then the boy’s body stiffened; Simon could feel the terror sifting through the boy like wheat, pouring itself upward through his hands and into his heart


    14. meticulously sifting through the grass with their fingers in hopes


    15. were becoming ineffective, my limbs sloppily sifting through the


    16. “They knew your name, but not mine?” Murdam asked as he started sifting through the pallets and debris


    17. After marking the quadrants, we started removing and sifting the first layers of topsoil


    18. After sifting through mountains of interview summaries, forensic reports, facts, opinions and gossip, his instincts screamed, “No!”


    19. His hands dropped in front of him and he began sifting the loose


    20. They vaguely discerned and dimly foresaw the approaching times of spiritual sifting and cruel adversity

    21. He said: "I recognize that this sifting of the kingdom distresses you, but it is unavoidable


    22. The believers were beginning to hold public meetings once more, and there was occurring a gradual but effective consolidation of the tried and true survivors of the great sifting through which the gospel believers had just passed


    23. Brown leaves fluttered slowly down from the bare branches, sifting upon his mailed shoulders


    24. The old man nodded his head and continued to do so while sifting through his binder


    25. Federation intelligence agencies sifting through the press releases in search of clues derived as much information from determining who did not deny responsibility as who did


    26. He was putting trays of dirt inside a machine, sifting through other trays, then picking out bones and other things Hank couldn’t identify


    27. He began sifting around tarps and trying to find planks far apart enough that he could fit in between them


    28. Barak Obama, raising his eyes from the documents he had been sifting through as quickly as he could, gave a harassed look at his two visitors


    29. MacArthur, who had been sifting through the file while listening, then intervened


    30. The people in the library paid only scant notice to her as she started sifting through the first book, one titled ‘History of humanity – From the antiquity to the present’

    31. She paused, sifting her hands nervously through the brown beach sand


    32. After turning to her digital clock, he gazed at the pulsating dots that separated the numbers, like sand sifting through the holes of an hour glass


    33. Later that day, he found himself standing in his bedroom with the stack of paper-clipped lottery tickets sifting uneasily through his right hand


    34. But suddenly, you hear a rattling noise sifting through the arid air


    35. One day you could be on top of the world, and the next you could be sifting through trash in some back alley


    36. " He then sat next to her at the table, and began sifting through the sheets, scanning the first two numbers of every filled out ticket


    37. One of the officers that had come in with Tsukahara then whispered something to him before sifting through a thick book and opening it to a specific page, then presenting the book to the vice admiral


    38. sifting through a feast of spam, he noticed one message with an


    39. There was an awkward silence in the office while Nancy sat at her desk and started sifting through her paperwork


    40. Sifting through the linen was next, but no, there was nothing he could use there either

    41. until they’ve begun the process of sifting through the material of their


    42. Where conjunction natives rely on immediate, knee-jerk responses – or immediate dismissal of ideas to oblivion (once they’ve decided something, their minds are made up forever); elongation natives rely on continual self-analysis, sifting and refining their thinking, over and over and over and over


    43. started sifting down into the ground like it would if it were in an


    44. The Winds of Dawn had altered direction slightly for its sound was a modest howl instead of a constant shriek, and there was less snow sifting down from the overhang


    45. was sifting through a pile of slashed and torn spacesuits


    46. " It is only the sifting process which God permits, in order to separate the wheat from the chaff, through which we must all pass


    47. A soldier busied himself by sifting through the truck’s glove compartment while two others hovered around the open tailgate


    48. That relief, caused by water laden clouds drifting in off the warm Indian Ocean, propelled by a gentle north easterly wind, was now sifting down gently and had the locals huddled over their drinks far earlier than usual


    49. The only problem will be sifting through such a vast quantity of knowledge to pick out the most


    50. Afters hours of sifting through the rubble, it was Wilx who finally found an uninjured sample of Jupiter














































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    Synonyms for "sifting"

    sifting winnow winnowing

    "sifting" definitions

    the act of separating grain from chaff