Madeleine M. Kunin

When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.

American Diplomat

Ben Sweetland

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

Author

Andrew Taylor Still

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

American Scientist

Gary Bettman

I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

American Businessman

Ryan Zinke

We need to secure our southern border. Clearly, the southern border is now a nexus between immigration and national security. It's a sieve.

American Politician

Gillian Jacobs

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

American Actress

George Lucas

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

American Director

Khalil Gibran

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Lebanese Poet

Buddha

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Leader

Lewis Carroll

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

English Author

Commonly used in cooking to separate ingredients like flour or powdered sugar.

Kitchen Staple

A sieve is not typically used for thin liquids; it's for thicker mixtures or dry ingredients.

Not for Liquids

Can be used to describe a process of careful selection or elimination.

Metaphorical Use

Using 'sieve' as a verb suggests a thorough, meticulous search for something within a large quantity.

Detailed Search

Often paired with 'through', emphasising the action of examining closely to find specific items.

Searching for Clues

When used in sports, 'sieve' implies a negative assessment of a team or player's defense.

Negative Connotation

Primarily used informally among sports fans or commentators.

Colloquial Language

Used to express someone's inability to keep confidential information private.

Trust Issues

Calling someone a 'sieve' can be seen as slightly insulting, so use it with caution.

Informal Insult

 needs to get get a good start in life let's go ahead and sift these materials so that they're more manageable as you can see this mixture is becoming coarser and coarser so longer I'm sifting it and that's because the nice fine stuff is slipping through this sieve and I'm just

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 and accurate this internal sensing system is. To filter the blood, each nephron uses two powerful pieces of a blob-like structure called a glomerulus, and a long, stringy, straw-like tubule. The glomerulus works like a sieve, allowing only certain ingredients,

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 that a clean cotton garment folded eight times over, can reduce bacteria up to 80 percent from water sieved through. So, why aren't governments blaring this on television? Why isn't it on every poster across the third world? Because there is no profit in it.

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 Well, I believe we just look at nature's experiments. So through natural selection, over time, mutations, variations that disrupt the function of a protein will not be tolerated over time. Evolution acts as a sieve. It sieves out the bad variation.

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 these dogs snapper eggs gets trapped in a sieve or rakers while water is expelled right back out through the gills but dog snapper eggs aren't the only caviar these big mouse loved wheat kubera gather in deep water and form a

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 women in my life sieved with anger at the sexism rampant in u.s. politics and culture I could feel the pain and rage especially in those of us who have experienced sexual violence I wanted to design an experience that

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 a truck takes them to a nearby mill with several specialized machines. An air blower re-sorts the seeds by density, an assortment of sieves filter them by size, and an optical scanner sorts by color.

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 cultural shift in the world and it will give an example to younger generations so that they can Rican sieve their lifespan thank you very much

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 first pots about about eight started steaming towards the islands and my sieve is a big thing breaching the water

Sieve

Kitchen Staple

Not for Liquids

Metaphorical Use

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