Sentence examples for sifting down from inspiring English sources

I could feel grayness sifting down on me like dust.

But I gave myself a good chill, helped along by our very own wind, sifting down out of Canada and doing such a good job of numbing my face.

He felt the weight of the gas can in his hand, lifted his face to the sun and the hot breath sifting down through the canyon, and for just a fraction of a second he forgot what he was doing there, as if he'd gone outside of himself.

Or what lots of Chelsea gallery owners would dream of doing if they had Echeverría's space — expanses of polished concrete beneath a soaring ceiling, the bright but ever-grayish light of Mexico City sifting down on the kind of tough, savvy art that seems to be coming out of the city's pores these days, turning it into a compulsory stop on the international art circuit.

A few dispirited snowflakes sifted down out of the sky.

"Twigs and shredded leaves" sifted down on them as canister and shrapnel fired too high ripped the trees apart.

It was allowed to settle for 24 hours, because, he noted, the dust particles sift down very slowly.

Residue from the poisonous compounds that give the colors their brilliance sift down through the atmosphere after a blast.