Sentence examples for chaff from from inspiring English sources

Lawmakers understandably worry about the political chaff from greater transparency.

When cereal farmers harvest their wheat, barley, oat or rice, they separate the grain and chaff from the stalk.

The dead pigs say otherwise... Let's start by winnowing out the mythical chaff from the factual wheat.

Fortunately, the International Gymnastics Federation has successfully separated the chaff from the wheat by strict control and suspension of corrupt judges.

HOT winds scour the open plains of north-east Syria, whisking the chaff from a record wheat harvest into twirling genies and churning up dust clouds that seem to swallow whole villages of squat mud houses.

Threshing and winnowing the separation of chaff from grain is far easier when the hull separates freely from the grain, as in the cultivated tetraploid macaroni wheat (T. durum), a major commercial wheat species.

Pick whatever metaphor you like: wheat from chaff, signal from noise, gold from dross.

I couldn't stand the sweat and chaffing from the hay.

The back of my neck burning and chaffed from my wetsuit, I rounded one buoy, and steadily made my way to the others.

Clouds of radar-reflective foil known as "chaff", ejected from a satellite, might fool an incoming missile's homing sensors.

To remove redundant "chaff" contigs from the assembly, BLAT (Kent 2002) was used to map contigs shorter than 500 bp to contigs greater than 500 bp.