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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:

Scientists are still sifting for the bones, and visitors can tour the dig themselves.
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.
In sifting through the profusion of images Avedon has assembled over the years, it's hard to keep the categories distinct.
But our impression, after talking to serving officials, is that even this enlarged staff is consumed by meetings on day-to-day issues, sifting each day's threat information and trying to coordinate everyday operations.
Clearly, the best way for the Journal 's news staff to write about Broaddrick would be the way the New York Times and the Washington Post have--partly sifting evidence concerning a widely publicized accusation, and partly examining the ethics and motives of the Journal 's editorial page for printing it in the first place.