Sifting
[sɪft]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sift
Typed by Cecil
Examples
- Miss Ophelia lifted out the sifting papers of sweet herbs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Consequently the testing and sifting function of education only shows to which one of three classes an individual belongs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Ducks, like whales, subsist by sifting the mud and water; and the family has sometimes been called Criblatores, or sifters. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Now, it's too late for me to begin shovelling and sifting at alphabeds and grammar-books. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Because I suppose, sir, that what was found, was found in the sorting and sifting. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is one of those cases where the art of the reasoner should be used rather for the sifting of details than for the acquiring of fresh evidence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The notes I have here made will want sifting, and you can, if you please, extract them under my direction. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The discovery of this function must be employed as a criterion for trying and sifting the facts taught and the methods used. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Millie