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Example sentences for: sift

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"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 real problem is that none of the guides sift through all the stuff and tell you what's right for whom.
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.
It had the operational space to gather and sift recruits, indoctrinating them in isolated, desert camps.
Having had the opportunity to sift through so many American place names in a relatively short span, those of us who edited the Omni Gazetteer were particularly struck by the great diversity in American naming practices, and what it suggests about the various eras and cultures that were a part of the settlement of the country.