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Example sentences for: sifting

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

What's really weird is you just know some of those agents are taking breaks from sifting through company documents and interviewing industry whistleblowers to go have a smoke.
In sifting through the profusion of images Avedon has assembled over the years, it's hard to keep the categories distinct.
It also threatens severe impairment of the judicial function by sifting out cases presenting constitutional challenges in order to insulate the Government's laws from judicial inquiry.
Although when I was sifting through some storage at Moishe's in Long Island City last week, I came across a trunk full of letters from college and high-school days.
Scientists are still sifting for the bones, and visitors can tour the dig themselves.