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- adjective Having been
sifted . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sift .
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Examples
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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
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Immediately roll the truffles in sifted cocoa powder, icing sugar or finely chopped nuts
Archive 2009-07-01 Mrs Frog 2009
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Using wooden spoon, gently stir in sifted flour and milk.
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Immediately roll the truffles in sifted cocoa powder, icing sugar or finely chopped nuts
Father's Day Chocolate Truffles Mrs Frog 2009
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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
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Transfer mixture to large bowl, stir in sifted dry ingredients.
Christmas gingerbread biscuits Mrs Frog 2006
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Transfer mixture to large bowl, stir in sifted dry ingredients.
Archive 2006-12-01 Mrs Frog 2006
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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
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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
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They are carpetless and uncurtained, their dim twilight being sifted from the burning glare without through green mattings hung at the windows.
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