Example sentences for: sift

How can you use “sift” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • Yet overindulgence of the young was firmly checked by the reminder that It's late time to sift when da sids [chaff] is ida bread ,' meaning discipline is only effective when started at an early age.

  • Rather, they sift through a collection of Web pages that have been examined and approved for use by the individual company's database.

  • "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. "

  • 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.


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