Example Sentences

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Now, banks are sifting through their exposure to the company and its chain of customers and suppliers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Survivors are sifting through the rubble of their homes, from smoldering apartments and bungalows off Lake Avenue to high-end properties around Sunset Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

Personnel aboard Navy and Coast Guard ships are sifting through a debris field measuring about 1,500 meters by 1,500 meters, the general said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023

Now a team of engineers are sifting through tonnes of sand and soil from the whole beach as part of a £10.5m project to remove all the hazardous material.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2022

All around us, people perceptibly in need of new clothes are sifting through the racks and piles of hanging and folded goods.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone