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Sieve in sentence

16 examples of Sieve in a sentence

Evolution acts as a sieve.
So it's like water going through a sieve.
In the brewing process, there's lots of cloudy elements in the beer, so to get rid of these cloudy elements, what some companies do is they pour the beer through a sort of gelatin sieve in order to get rid of that cloudiness.
The plot had more loops in it than a sieve and made no effort to explain anything in depth.
During the past year’s investigation of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia ahead of the 2016 US presidential election, Congress has leaked like a sieve, and many congressional Democrats have made it clear that they will “resist” Trump at every turn.
Making matters worse, the Aadhaar program leaks like a sieve.
But, thankfully, for anyone with persistence and a modicum of computer skill, the Internet leaks like a sieve.
Did she perform any ceremony befitting it, or what did she do?""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."
how blind is he who cannot see through a sieve.
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.
There the ground was perforated like a sieve.
My next difficulty was to make a sieve or searce, to dress my meal, and to part it from the bran and the husk; without which I did not see it possible I could have any bread.
Just then, from behind a screen hiding a remoter lodging, came a man with a sieve in his hand, and approached the fountain.
Ursus did not notice the two men, as they were in the shadow of the entrance, and he began quietly to sink in water vegetables which filled the sieve.
After a while the washing was finished; he took the wet sieve and disappeared behind the screen.
Ursus was almost entering the little house, when the sound of steps attracted his attention; he halted, and, seeing two persons, put his sieve on the balustrade and turned to them.