Words similar to sifting

Example sentences for: sifting

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

He is expected to be the analyst in chief for the government, sifting evidence and directly briefing the President as his principal intelligence adviser.
Meanwhile, investigators have begun sifting for bomb parts.
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.
Rescuers sifting through the rubble have found thinner-than-recommended steel rods and cement "filled with so much sand that it crumbles in [the workers'] hands."
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.