Sifted

Examples

• The meal was then bolted, and the tailings, consisting of bran, middlings and adherent flour, again sifted and re-ground. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When salt is sifted it is ready for packing in bags or packages suitable for shipment to the consumer. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Coal-dust, vegetable-dust, bone-dust, crockery dust, rough dust and sifted dust,--all manner of Dust. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But, eyes no less rapacious had watched the growth of the Mounds in years bygone, and had vigilantly sifted the dust of which they were composed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We have carefully sifted the statement he has addressed to us; and here it is at your service. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• About sixty men were sifted to get twenty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What others may have done, bearing directly or collaterally on the subject, in print, is carefully considered and sifted to the point of exhaustion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• After drying, the salt is sifted and the fine table salt is separated from the coarser products. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All the mounds are sorted and sifted? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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