I hadn't tried to read the letters--just sifted through them to make sure the envelopes contained only letters.
I took off my glasses and sifted all the remaining letters one by one into a handy banana hamper.
Three eggs, three tablespoons water, one small teaspoon soda sifted with sugar; add enough flour to roll.
Four eggs, one and a third cups of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of water, and two cups of flour, through which has been sifted two small teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, four cups sifted flour, four teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of four eggs.
Cream one pound butter and one pound powdered sugar together; to this add the beaten yolks of twelve eggs, one pound sifted flour, and two teaspoons baking powder.
One full pint ofsifted flour, two even teaspoonfuls of yeast powder, and a little salt.
Grate the white part of a cocoanut, the whites of four eggs (well beaten), one-half pound of sifted sugar.
Rub one-half teaspoon of lard and one-half of butter into two quarts of sifted flour.
The manures were finely sifted and mixed with about ten times their weight of fine soil, and sown broadcast on the growing wheat, March 22.
It is then dried, and before the malt is used, these dried sprouts and roots are sifted out, and are sold for cattle-food.
Sifted coal ashes are also very useful for this purpose.
The ashes were made from beech and hard maple (Acer saccharinum) wood, and were sifted through a fine sieve before being weighed.
My hen-manure is pulverized, and sifted through a common coal sieve.
The luscious fruit of professional success left an acrid flavor; the pungent dead sea ashes sifted freely.
Harry Kenton was a normal and healthy boy, but the discussions, the debates, and the passions sweeping over the Union throughout the year had sifted into Pendleton also.
The window at his elbow rattled incessantly, and the ashes and cinders sifted in, blackening his face and hands.
We have searched the place thoroughly, and even sifted the ashes, but all in vain.
They searched every nook and corner, and even sifted the ashes, but could find nothing.
When salt is sifted it is ready for packing in bags or packages suitable for shipment to the consumer.
After drying, the salt is sifted and the fine table salt is separated from the coarser products.
Place slices in a pan and cover with sifted toasted bread crumbs or sifted granola.
Sprinkle the top withsifted bread crumbs, and bake a light brown.
Beat into this enough sifted flour to make a batter that will pile slightly when poured in a thick stream.
The remainder of the space between the pipes at A A being filled with a cement composed of Sifted cast-iron borings 100 lbs.
They may then be potted in the compost just described, which should first be sifted through a very coarse sieve.
In the open air, the flour of sulphur may be sifted over the diseased plants.
These materials should be thoroughly mixed, and the surface layer for an inch or two in depth sifted through a moderately coarse sieve, and then levelled and smoothed.
Then the same soil should be sifted over them to the depth of half an inch, and pressed down very lightly.
He sifted all Scotland and North Ireland for outstanding men for South Carolina.
Science, observation, experience, history and sifted facts all unite to tell us that whatever was great in its unfolding in the talent of Abraham Lincoln was great in the seed form in his father and mother.
Above all, God sifted all the nations of the Old World to find blood rich enough to people the Southern States.
If the seed to be sown is small, mix it with double its own quantity of sand, or dry sifted earth, as that helps you not to sow too thickly.
You must prepare some finely sifted compost of loam, leaf-mould, and silver sand.
Would he wish to see them sought for and sifted out?
Fill an earthen, copper, or wooden vessel half full of sifted Sand, then fill it up to the brim with clear Spring Water, and stir the Sand well with a stick in order to detach the earthy particles.
They hoped to be drifted over, but no snow could lodge in this hurricane, and it sifted past, dry and sharp, eddying out a bare place wherein they lay.
Digging away the drifts, they crawled inside to find it half full of snow--snow which had sifted through the crevices.
Or fine gravel--sifted of most of its earthy matter--may be used.
The earth covering should be sprinkled or sifted over the seeds, and then it must be patted or pressed down firmly.
I have sifted the whole city, and, barrin' the three dozen I made out already, I can't find hilt or hair of another.
Sad at heart was Sea-Gull waiting, Watching, waiting in the wigwam; Not alone the storms of winters Sifted frost upon her tresses.
They sifted down like ashes on the woman's dark head as she passed in.
Put into every bird an oyster, or a little butter mixed with some finely sifted breadcrumbs.
Having stoned two pounds of best raisins, cut them in half, and when all are done, sprinkle them well with sifted flour, to prevent their sinking to the bottom of the cake.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sifted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
