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Example sentences for: sifting

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Scientists are still sifting for the bones, and visitors can tour the dig themselves.
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.
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.
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.
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."