Sentence examples for as a sieve from inspiring English sources

I pictured his mind as a sieve through which bits kept dropping out.

At one point I sported a scarlet mohican and had so many piercings you could have used me as a sieve.

The sea ice is thickest above North America, where Canadian islands and the fingers of northern Greenland act as a sieve in the current.

As a forage feeder, the fish functions as a sieve for plankton, turning it into protein and fat that nourish creatures further up the food chain.

ASK any Republican presidential candidate, and they will tell you without hesitation: America's border with Mexico is as leaky as a sieve.

Many of the filter feeders apparently discriminate solely on the basis of size, dictated by the dimensions of the spaces in the membranelle acting as a sieve.

7. Reach your hand in and, using it as a sieve-of-sorts, press the yellow solid pieces against the side of the bowl, draining off the liquid.

Their extended, Phe-, Gly-rich (FG) regions form a meshwork of filaments that functions as a sieve-like hydrogel.

"It's a sieve, as are their land borders".

"I can describe the Russian economy as water in a sieve," Yulia L. Latynina, a commentator on Echo of Moscow radio, said of the chronic waste in Russian industry.

Ogechi tried to feed it the detergent she'd given to the yarn one, but it passed through the baby as if through a sieve.