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• The sieve will filter out large rocks and grains of sand.From the entry filter out
• Oh, that's right. You said that yesterday, didn't you? I have a mind like a sieve.From the entry mind like a sieve
• Chappatis are made with sieved wholemeal flour.From the entry sieved
• The ship leaked like a sieve and rode like a barrel; in other words it was completely lacking in seaworthiness.From the entry seaworthiness
• Stick 2 zephyrs together at the base and dust thoroughly with icing sugar using a sieve.2019, Alissa Timoshkina, “Zephyrs”, in Salt & Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen, London: Mitchell Beazley, →ISBN. From the entry zephyr
• They walked the forest path through geometries of sieved and scintillescent light.2015 September 15, Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Tor Books, page 327. From the entry scintillescent
• Strain through a chinois or fine-meshed sieve to remove any lumps of yolk.2007 February 21, “Recipe: Maple Crema”, in New York Times. From the entry chinois
• The beer was finally poured through a sieve into a spouted jar, from which it was decanted.2006, Robert B. Koehl, Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta, page 292. From the entry spouted
• Sieve the icing sugar into a bowl and blend with enough rum to make a thin icing.1993, Good Housekeeping, edited by Heather Rocklin and Sarah Bailey, Complete Book of Home Baking, London: Dealerfield, →ISBN, page 71…. From the entry gugelhupf
• Certain fruits must be sieved or put through a mouli to get out the skins and pips.1978, Ireland of the Welcomes, volume 27, Irish Tourist Board. From the entry mouli
• Its gaskets were loosened by the Passing Presence, the roof became a sieve.1977, Jim Stratton, Pioneering in the Urban Wilderness, New York, N.Y.: Urizen Books, →ISBN, page 204, column 2. From the entry bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk
• Particle size distributions of fallback and ejecta were determined principally by mechanical sieving and weighing.1970, Nuclear Science Abstracts, page 3595. From the entry fallback
• The sievings retained on different sieves are washed into separate Petri dishes for further observations or purification by sucrose centrifugation.2008, D. K. Maheshwari, Potential Microorganisms For Sustainable Agriculture, page 79. From the entry sieving
• Charming woman, but with a memory like a sieve.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry memory like a sieve
• I have the head of a sieve.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 145. From the entry head like a sieve
• No sieves or bolting cloths are employed in its manufacture, and many coarse, unpulverized particles are present in the product.1908, Harry Snyder, Human Foods and their Nutritive Value, New York: Macmillan, section 157, pp. 145-146. From the entry coarse
• Content creators and editors are encouraged to filter material through a sieve of strict standards known to insiders as NPOV, NOR, RS, and V.2015, June Jamrich Parsons, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 2016, Comprehensive, 18th edition, Cengage Learning, section 332. From the entry NPOV
• In cases of extensive trauma, trying to fill a body with embalming fluid is like trying to fill a sieve or a sponge.2011, Dr Bill Bass, Jefferson Bass, Jon Jefferson, Beyond the Body Farm. From the entry unionall
• The countries of North Europe also imported special cloths and mixed cloths, bombases, sieves, leather goods, iron, copper, lead, tin, silver and ironware.1998, Giuseppe Barbieri, Carmelo Alberti, Le Venezie e l'Europa: testimoni di una civiltà sociale, page 275. From the entry bombase
• One sand was that used in cement testing with white well rounded smooth grains, passing through a 20-mesh sieve and retained on a 30-mesh sieve.1922, Harvey Whipple, Concrete, volumes 20-21, page 96. From the entry sand
• “A sieve of a southern border, the supply chain massacred, food prices rising by the day, crime rampant in big cities and being browbeaten continuously by Beijing.2021 November 11, Mark Bonokoski, quoting Steve Flanagan, “BONOKOSKI: ‘Let's go Brandon! Let's go Brandon!’”, in Toronto Sun. From the entry let's go, Brandon
• In healthy sieve elements, gold particles were mainly found in the mictoplasm and in association with the membrane, whereas in the cell lumen they were significantly less abundant.2015 August 19, Stefanie V. Buxa et al., “Phytoplasma infection in tomato is associated with re-organization of plasma membrane, ER…. From the entry mictoplasm
• She scooped a spoonful of sieved porridge from the nursery bowl, and offered it to baby Adrian, who was sitting in his high chair next to her.2006, Imogen Parker, “July 1961”, in The Time of Our Lives, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 232. From the entry porridgy
• The tank is provided with external feed sumps with shut-off valves to enable the sieve contained in them to be removed and cleaned without the necessity for emptying the tank.1956 April, “"Merchant Navy" Class Pacific Modified”, in Railway Magazine, page 212. From the entry shut-off

Meaning of sieve

1. noun A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
2. noun A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
3. noun A kind of coarse basket.

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How do you use sieve in a sentence?

Sieve is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.”

What is a short sentence with sieve?

“Chappatis are made with sieved wholemeal flour.”

What does sieve mean?

Sieve means a device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.