A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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The successful sieving of the fuel molecules is achieved via selective proton transfers due to steric hindrance on holey graphene sheets that have chemical functionalization and act as proton-exchange membranes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023
Mrs Goodwin's body, which had been buried at her funeral in 1984, had to be exhumed during a complex police investigation which involved a forensic anthropologist and archaeologist sieving through soil and analysing bone fragments.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2023
“No amount of sieving, sherd counting, text criticism or ancient DNA analysis can alter that equation,” Greenberg says.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 11, 2022
“Children recognize sand as a creative material suitable for pouring, scooping, sieving, raking, and measuring,” it said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
The sieving winnowed out tiny pebbles and other impurities.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
