Some sewed with sinew and needles of cactus thorn on deerskin white and fine; others winnowed the corn.
They winnowed the creek with basket-work weirs for every finger-long troutling that came down in it, and tore the bark off the pine trees to get at the grubs underneath.
Down fell the winnowed wheat; but, mounted high, The whirlwind bore the chaff, and hid the sky.
Even they could thrive in his auspicious reign; And such a plenteous crop they bore Of purest and well-winnowed grain, As Britain never knew before.
Ebionitism saw in Jesus the Son of David, come to re-edit the Law, to provide it with new sanction, after he had winnowed the chaff from the wheat in it.
Again it is judged, it is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it, before it can be reprinted after twenty years, and reprinted after a century!
He winnowedhis army, dismissing all his soldiers except such as were distinguished by their bravery, their strength, and their intelligence.
Or that persuasion could but thus convince me That my integrity and truth to you Might be affronted with the match and weight Of such a winnowed purity in love.
I humbly thank your Highness And am right glad to catch this good occasion Most throughly to be winnowed where my chaff And corn shall fly asunder; for I know There's none stands under more calumnious tongues Than I myself, poor man.
At the villages the corn was being threshed and winnowed with instruments as old as the time of Abraham, in their peculiarities of form.
The half-ground grist is winnowed in the ordinary way of tossing in a basket; and the grinding and winnowing continue alternately until a fairly uniform bean meal is obtained.
Bassett winnowed these carefully, brushing the chaff into his wastebasket and retaining a few kernels for later use.
Since the seed is not deemed sufficiently clean for market as it comes from the machine, it should be carefully winnowedby running it through a fanning mill with the requisite equipment of sieves.
Thou dost not know what planned and winnowed motive I did have in writing thee; nor does poor Bell know that; for poor Bell was too delirious to have planned and winnowed motives then.
What passes through is farther winnowed and sifted through a finer sieve than the first.
They then pass over the dried berries a very heavy roller, to break the envelopes, which are afterwards winnowed away with a fan.
When the pellicle has been pounded loose the grain iswinnowed on a large round tray by a series of dexterous movements, removing all chaff and dirt with scarcely the loss of a kernel of good rice.
After being threshed in the wooden mortar the winnowed seeds are again returned to the mortar and crushed.
The mother winnowedit clean, and put it in her basket, covering it up with the winnowing tray.
His spacious pinions caught the air andwinnowed out a few feet over the water.
Assured that no peril was lurking near, he winnowed slowly along the shore, his legs trailing ludicrously, and dropped again to earth at the next point.
His style is clear--objective--winnowed and fastidious.
But now," continued the knight, "supposing the corn winnowed and despatched to the mill, what did she after she had read my letter?
How should they know the wind of a new beauty Sweeping my soul hadwinnowed it with song?
So, in the man who sings, All of the voiceless horde From the cold dawn of things Have their reward; All in whose pulses ran Blood that is his at last, From the first stooping man Far in the winnowed past.
So the Cat winnowed the grain from the chaff alone.
The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
There he crouched and scanned the water in the moonlight, on the chance that he might catch a sluggish, red-finned sucker as it winnowed the water through its long wrinkled tube of a mouth.
She stopped and winnowed the air carefully through her sensitive nose.
In a minute a pointed nose was poked out from the stones and carefully winnowed the air.
A mile to windward he stopped, thrust his blunt muzzle high up into the gale, and winnowed the salt-laden air through the meshes of his wonderful nostrils.
Their deposits are long exposed to the weather, and sorted over by the streams, and winnowed and worked over again and again by the waves.
Coarse cross-bedded sandstones record the action of strong shifting currents which spread coarse waste near shore and winnowed it of finer stuff.
The fine material has not been thoroughly winnowed from the coarse by the long action of strong waves and tides.
The husked grain is then commonly winnowed in a sieve, and the unhusked rice (antah) which remains has to be separated from the husked rice and pounded over again.
When the rice has all been cut it is winnowed in order to get rid of the chaff, and then laid out in the sun till quite dry, so that it may not get mouldy if kept for a year.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "winnowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
