Similar words: lifting, drifting, shifting, uplifting, shoplifting, weightlifting, weight lifting, thriftiness. Meaning: ['sɪftɪŋ] 
n. the act of separating grain from chaff.
n. the act of separating grain from chaff. 
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1. Crash investigators have been sifting through the wreckage of the aircraft.
2. He lay on the beach, sifting the sand through his fingers.
3. Police are sifting through the evidence in the hope of finding more clues.
4. They spent days carefully sifting through the evidence.
5. Heavy snow is sifting onto the ground.
6. I began sifting through the mass of evidence.
7. Police have spent the day sifting through the debris for clues.
8. Police experts are sifting all the evidence with a fine - tooth comb .
9. She looked quickly through the papers(Sentencedict), sifting out from the pile anything that looked interesting.
10. The police are sifting the evidence very carefully to try and find the guilty person.
11. It was the cotton fluff sifting from the air.
12. Police experts were sifting a stash of spare parts this week searching for the identities of yet more machines.
13. By midday Monday, police were sifting through more than 300 tips.
14. The discovery was made by accountants sifting through the remains of the Maxwell business empire.
15. Firemen sifting through the ashes had heard the click of bangles.
16. The problems of sifting out the valuable and proven ingredients of native medicines are formidable.
17. Employers may be sifting through dozens of forms and unwilling to plough through a lot of waffle.
18. He was sickened by sifting through hundreds of case notes on crimes against children,[sentencedict.com] desperately looking for clues.
19. The main sifting technique employed is called a self-organising map.
20. Smaller Artemia obtained by sifting the shrimp through cheesecloth or bolting cloth are satisfactory.
21. Prepare the Yorkshire pudding by sifting the flour into a large bowl.
22. He thought of Shaw's big hands sifting through the blown soil.
23. Fire-fighters have have spent the day sifting through the debris looking for clues.
24. Dabbling ducks operate a similar system when sifting through the muddy bottoms of the waters on which they live.
25. The experts did a painstaking sifting of debris.
26. One who operates a sifting machine.
27. The older I get, the more efficient I become at sifting out the rubbish.
28. Oracle has denied knowledge of the detective agency's methods, which included sifting through rubbish bins.
29. Thus many non-relevant documents will have been retrieved and examined in the process of sifting relevant from non-relevant.
30. But when the first nails pull free and the lid creaks up, light pours in with a sifting of earth.
More similar words: lifting, drifting, shifting, uplifting, shoplifting, weightlifting, weight lifting, thriftiness, drafting, grafting, sift, sifter, fiftieth, thriftily, sift through, craftiness, falsifying, classifying, intensifying, unstinting, continental drift, tinting, distinguishing, stinging, tingling, ingratiating, ting, tinge, noting, outing.