plural noun
Etymology
Origin of siftings
Example Sentences
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What remains for the Quennell corps are mostly second siftings, attractively presented, which reinforce the charm of the whole Proust legend.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then there are those that are amiable siftings through memory's scrapbook, in which the author recounts tales about people and places as if he were holding court over a few beers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her monologues were not stunts but acute siftings of men and women as social beings.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is first threshed; then beaten in the mortar to separate the husk; then, by different siftings, it is separated into three qualities.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
This clamming or stopping is a mixture of sand, sieved dust, ground pitchers, or other infusible siftings held99 together with a very little waste glaze and water.
From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox
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