Sentence examples for chaff from inspiring English sources

The point is, July and August have a habit of distilling the wheat from the chaff; these months demand that you maintain, or improve, you standards, else you'll be banished to the naughty corner or a fate even worse (like an elimination final).

The documents, which include recently declassified cables from the Australian high commission, reinforce the view that Gukurahundi – a Shona word for the spring rains that sweep away dry season chaff - was closely associated with Mugabe's Zanu-PF party's efforts to eliminate opposition groups after independence in 1980.

Surprisingly, though, one of them had a morsel of insight amid all the chaff.

But football's legends can emerge from the seeming chaff of human physiques: think of stocky Diego Maradona, perhaps the greatest ever player, or his Argentine successor, the tiny genius Lionel Messi.Then there is the matter of gold medals and opportunity costs.

That has helped sort the wheat from the chaff: on January 11th BBC Wales produced the first league table for a decade using the banding data.

And farmers can do more to attract capital, for example by seeking out financial deals where investors' incentives are aligned with their own, such as through joint ventures.Investors need to separate the wheat from the chaff, too.

In the vacuum of space, tinfoil balloons, or clouds of aluminium strips known as chaff, will keep pace with the missile that released them.

But she was not in the business of publishing chaff.

Instead, they will raise their pay as a reward for getting costs down".In "The Synergy Myth" there is much chaff amidst the wheat.

By flying under escort at night and at about 30,000 feet, the B-52s were reasonably safe from MiG fighters and antiaircraft guns, and Wild Weasel and chaff-dropping aircraft helped suppress the SA-2s.

A clear example is that of the tiny warbler, the chiffchaff; its repeated chiff-chaff chiff-chaff song is for many people the first sound of spring when it is heard in March.