plural noun
Etymology
Origin of siftings
Example Sentences
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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
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
Her monologues were not stunts but acute siftings of men and women as social beings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later siftings might discover them, but she was reasoning now under too great human pressure for delicate analysis.
From A Touch of Sun and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote
He was conducting his own siftings in high solitude, a lean, bronzed young man, with dark hair and eyes and, at the present moment, an unexhilarated expression.
From The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley
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