sift
verb (used with object)
to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
unsifted
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a word derived from
sift.
Example Sentences
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These fall upon the reader more as an unsifted data dump than as a focused marshaling of evidence in aid of human and psychological insight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
The original graham cracker used unsifted whole-wheat flour.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2018
“Thistle-sifter. I am a thistle-sifter. I have a sieve of sifted thistles and a sieve of unsifted thistles. Because I am a thistle sifter.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2016
There was a lot of anger, a lot of unsifted emotion, but nothing I said there was wrong.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our rations were entirely out with the exception of coffee and some cornmeal picked up, so we ate hastily of unsifted mush and coffee.
From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones
