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For Bird, the most difficult thing was winnowing down a final list of 20 films.

From Washington Times • Apr. 22, 2020

In a field hard by, a threshing machine was winnowing the Argive grain,—a thing of wonder to the inhabitants, probably an object of suspicion,—the property of a rich land-owner.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

At intervals the cannon boomed, and Schofields' Henry was winnowing the air with his bell; nobody had a better time that day than Schofields' Henry, except old Wilkerson, who was with the procession.

From The Gentleman from Indiana by Tarkington, Booth

I tell thee again, fool," said Don Quixote, "thy imagination is dusty and foul; will it never be beaten out of thy stupid brain, that my lady Dulcinea was winnowing?

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

A solitary marsh-hawk, far over by the rail fence, was winnowing slowly, slowly hither and thither, lazily hunting.

From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir