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winnowing example sentences
winnowing
1. But the hayfields open to the winnowing rays
2. His winnowing fork is in His hand and He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor
3. He drove for another half hour winnowing the conglomeration of information through his mind
4. This probationary period granted us gives occasion for the winnowing of the wheat and proving the chaff, with greater facility than the latest model machine
5. Similarly, during two or three hours of drawl, and the winnowing of many bushels of words, Madame Defarge's frequent expressions of impatience were taken up, with marvellous quickness, at a distance: the more readily, because certain men who had by some wonderful exercise of agility climbed up the external architecture to look in from the windows, knew Madame Defarge well, and acted as a telegraph between her and the crowd outside the building
6. "I did not," said Sancho, "but I found her winnowing two bushels of wheat in the yard of her house
7. I have mentioned this lest anybody should mind what Sancho said about Dulcinea's winnowing or sifting; for, as they changed her to me, it is no wonder if they changed her to him
8. It was for his interests that every laborer should work as hard as possible, and that while doing so he should keep his wits about him, so as to try not to break the winnowing machines, the horse rakes, the thrashing machines, that he should attend to what he was doing
9. The old men on the rising straw-rick talked of the past days when they had been accustomed to thresh with flails on the oaken barn-floor; when everything, even to winnowing, was effected by hand-labour, which, to their thinking, though slow, produced better results
10. But her body had changed, slackening from the kids, and then sort of winnowing, as if to prepare her transition from motherhood to career
11. A Winnowing of the Stock Guide
12. If our winnowing approach had been applied to all 4,500 companies in the Stock Guide, and if the ratio for the first tenth had held good throughout, we would end up with about 150 companies meeting all six of our criteria of selection
13. ' This last, he said with apparent relish, and a winnowing of his knives, tubes, jars and instruments
14. ’ This last, he said with apparent relish, and a winnowing of his knives, tubes, jars, and instruments
15. " This last, he said with apparent relish, and a winnowing of his knives, tubes, jars, and instruments
