Example Sentences

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The Surge isn’t hot about participation in theatrical performances licensed to for-profit entertainment corporations serving as the major early winnower, either.

From Slate • Aug. 30, 2019

It is aspirational: the golden ticket to the worlds of education and international commerce, a parent’s dream and a student’s misery, winnower of the haves from the have-nots.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2018

Schilling led me to what will be the chocolate processing area to show me two rare, enormous machines: a winnower made in Italy and an 80-year-old Swiss-made melanger.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2011

The beam, a 4-in.-wide strip that demands the greatest precision and exacts the severest penalties for the minutest errors, is the great winnower of women gymnasts.

From Time Magazine Archive

This accomplished, the grain is freed from chaff by tossing it in a winnower.

From The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition by Cole, Fay-Cooper