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  • adjective Having been sifted.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sift.

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Examples

  • All that was left of the 1667 Brick Chapel in Maryland's first Colonial capital were its huge, 3-foot-thick brick foundation and thousands of fragments of glass, lead, brick and plaster sifted from the soil during 20 years of painstaking archaeology.

    Theorized Reconstruction of a 17th Century Jesuit Church in America 2009

  • Immediately roll the truffles in sifted cocoa powder, icing sugar or finely chopped nuts

    Archive 2009-07-01 Mrs Frog 2009

  • Using wooden spoon, gently stir in sifted flour and milk.

    Cinnamon Teacake : The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz 2010

  • Immediately roll the truffles in sifted cocoa powder, icing sugar or finely chopped nuts

    Father's Day Chocolate Truffles Mrs Frog 2009

  • Police here actually have to seek out information, discover and locate evidence, sifted from a large number of variables.

    Nothing But Greenlights « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Transfer mixture to large bowl, stir in sifted dry ingredients.

    Christmas gingerbread biscuits Mrs Frog 2006

  • Transfer mixture to large bowl, stir in sifted dry ingredients.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Mrs Frog 2006

  • The first Puritan settlers had crossed the ocean to found their city set upon a hill, an example to other nations, a chosen people, the grain that God had sifted from a whole nation to plant in the empty continent.

    What is Canada? 1969

  • The first Puritan settlers had crossed the ocean to found their city set upon a hill, an example to other nations, a chosen people, the grain that God had sifted from a whole nation to plant in the empty continent.

    What is Canada? 1964

  • They are carpetless and uncurtained, their dim twilight being sifted from the burning glare without through green mattings hung at the windows.

    In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

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