The dust is almost suffocating and sifts through every crack and crevice, the double, almost air-tight, windows of the Pullmans being insufficiently close to keep it out.
We are in the storm until we get below Timber Line, and the force of the wind drives the snow across the car as it sifts through the ventilators and in around the windows, and some of us are feeling pretty groggy.
Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell
The most recent consideration which sifts all preceding investigation is that by Whitehead, Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, London, 1904, chaps.
By becoming a son of man, by living in human form as the embodied love and life of God, and by making intelligible God's good-will and His invitation to life, Christ necessarily sifts men and separates them into two classes.
When Christ sifts His followers those remain who have spiritual tastes and wants.
M31 The Yellow Demeter, the goddess who sifts the ripe grain from the chaff at the threshing-floor.
The rose of dawn sifts through the azure air, And all her weariness and toil and care Vanish, as if from her some tender hand Lifted the burden, and transformed the hour To this undreamed-of sense of joy and power!
They are pollinated by the wind, which sifts them with golden pollen dust, abundant in the staminate catkins clustered on the same tree.
But in spring every twig is dancing and waving yellow plumes of new foliage, the picture of cheerfulness as the sunlight sifts through the tree-tops.
With the shadows of the leaves and the sundrops, And the plopping of the waterdrops, All about us in the open afternoon -- I am very like to swoon With the weight of this brocade, For the sun sifts through the shade.
The tenderest light that ever was seen Sifts through the vine-made window screen - Sifts and quivers, and flits and falls On home-made carpets and gray-hung walls.
Its abundant foliage turns bright yellow in the fall, and the Indian-summer sunshine sifts through it in delightful tones over the slow-gliding waters when they are at their lowest ebb.
Beginning at the end of the coil on the eastern rim, he sifts straight across and back, then follows the rim with the pollen around to the south side, sifts across and back, and then drops a little in the centre.
For several days the weather has been hot, which opens the pores in our tents so the first rain sifts right through.
The windsifts through the cracks in this old shed and although a stove was kept running, it was too cold for comfort.
Now there is a sudden, savage gust of wind, wilder, fiercer than before, and a sheet of snow sifts in through a crack in the door, and dances over the floor.
The seed sifts down the trousers legs and spreads itself in the furrow far better than any mechanical drill could do it.
Thus, when white light is employed, the red sifts it by quenching the green, and the green sifts it by quenching the red, both exhibiting the residual colour.
If we choose, we may travel always in the Forest, where the birds sing and the sunlight sifts through the trees.
If we choose, we may walk always in the Forest, where the birds sing and the sunlight sifts through the trees, where, although we sometimes grow footsore and hungry, we know that the goal is sure.
If we will, we may travel always in the Forest, where the birds sing and the sunlight sifts through the trees--" the same voice repeated.
Now as you read the second part over, it gradually sifts itself into several incidents about which the story is woven.
But one man sifts himself out by his spirit of earnest inquiry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sifts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
