Example Sentences

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Amazon provided kits to help prepare for wildfire season — including shovels, rakes, sifters, gloves and masks.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2023

Three men with metal detectors and sifters swept through the sand.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2023

A broad Choctaw basket collected in  Mississippi resembles the sifters that Naquin’s family used when catching shrimp.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2017

In that instance, the winner was not someone picked by the sifters.

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