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Example sentences for: sift

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The real problem is that none of the guides sift through all the stuff and tell you what's right for whom.
It had the operational space to gather and sift recruits, indoctrinating them in isolated, desert camps.
People travel from afar to sift through the offerings of used kimono, antique furniture and ceramics, antique scrolls, crafts, food, household items, and countless other categories of bric-a-brac and sundries, paying prices ranging from the reasonable to the outrageous.
"I was homeless when I went there, and everything I got, somebody had give to me," she said, noting she is trying to sift through things. "
The LAT also describes international tension at the Kenyan bomb site: the Kenyans are angered by the slow pace of the body recoveries and the Israeli rescuers are miffed at being watched closely by U.S. officials, who, the paper says, are seemingly worried that their allies might use the occasion to sift through classified materials.