sifting

But as the forensic scientists continue sifting through the remains of the mass graves, that possibility seems remote.

Sifting sand and putting it back in place is really a short-term fix, say experts.

Once the sand was plowed back onto the beaches, volunteers scoured it for any flotsam that got through the sifting machines.

Sifting the ashes of an attack in revolutionary Arab states is hard.

Sifting through snapshots of her in various pageants, their faces radiate with pride.

It was a tremendous training in the sifting of evidence and the examination of appearances.

In spite of his gloom, he caught himself sifting and assorting and placing things in their relative values.

Without sifting the nature of Beauty, without giving some definition of it, nobody can attempt to construct a Hierarchy of Art.

This is what, after much sorting and sifting, I could get to know about the definite facts of it.

Men might have thought that some being from above was sifting down to the earth lurid darkness.