Sentence examples for sieve through from inspiring English sources

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

English Heritage had to be on site yesterday to make it legal for us even to sieve through the molehills.

Amplification is one of the few ways we can sieve through the gushing stream for bits of conversational gold.

"The Atlantic is a sieve through which only or chiefly the liberal adventurous sensitive America-loving part of each city, clan, family, are brought," he wrote.

The entire Caribbean basin is already a sieve through which drugs flow relentlessly to North America and Europe with the consequent proliferation of arms and violent gangs.

I managed to turn a gorgeous heap of kale, strawberries, blueberries and nectarine into something that looked like I'd dragged a sieve through the Thames.

The rock-strewn wastelands that surround this border post are either one of the world's most carefully policed frontiers -- or the sieve through which Al Qaeda's elusive fugitives are slipping into asylum.

What is known is that members meet once a month from February, when they sieve through the suggestions sent in from around the world and turn in their own.

Each of his novels is a sieve through which various eras fall; just as his fiction is obsessed by proving that a crime has occurred, but refuses all moral judgment on its criminal cast list.

Moles have been so busy there that English Heritage has drafted in 37 volunteers to sieve through their molehills and carefully take out anything ancient which has been brought to the surface.

A touch of simple syrup to correct the sourness of the lemon juice, stir and sieve through a fine chinois or tea strainer, and you've got the stuff of Venetian empires.