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You place the peeled clove under a sievelike web of holes, then press down with hands on each side, rocking it back and forth.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2020
Oversight was spread among eight, sometimes sievelike, congressional committees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her sievelike will had not provided very well for Alice, a lady who needed protection.
From Time Magazine Archive
For Thatcher, it was an unwelcome embarrassment in a week marked by revelations that a number of new leaks had been detected in Britain's sievelike national security system.
From Time Magazine Archive
My brother’s ragged sweater and sievelike moccasins are the clothes he studies in.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
