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Example sentences for: sifting

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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."
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.
Scientists are still sifting for the bones, and visitors can tour the dig themselves.
This approach reflects editorial sifting of the evidence from the citations and a subsequent presentation that best befits clarity and sense development.
In sifting through the profusion of images Avedon has assembled over the years, it's hard to keep the categories distinct.