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Using a sifter, sprinkle two cups of powdered sugar onto the coated cereal and mix once again.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025
Lay your paper heart or other design atop the cake, load up a couple tablespoons of powdered confectioners’ sugar into a sifter or fine-mesh sieve, and let it snow.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
At an MHP grain processing center one hour east of Lviv, a truck filled with freshly harvested rapeseed — tiny, shiny and black — dumped its load into a sifter on a recent day.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
For about 10 days, she has used sifter boxes and shovels — left by a friendly stranger — to search for anything left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2018
Other years, jobs like Pipeworks laborer, trash sifter, and mold scraper were mixed in.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
In the parking lot of the market, there were bundles of clothing, toys for children, pet food, shovels and sifters, and boxes of food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2017
A broad Choctaw basket collected in Mississippi resembles the sifters that Naquin’s family used when catching shrimp.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2017
Processing rooms hold sifters where Beta Hatch sorts the insects.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
I remember judging a short-story prize where the organisers were so overwhelmed with the number of entries, they employed sifters to reduce the number to an amount they thought the judges could read.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2013
Lina hadn’t thought about it before, but now she wondered about the trash sifters.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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