What is "sieved"

Usage examples of "sieved".

A minute trickled by, elusive as the fall of sand grains sieved through an hourglass.

I could have sieved under the door, but wanted to conserve my strength.

The wooden scrapers lay abandoned on the table top, and a heap of sieved and washed gravel formed a glittering pyramid in the centre of the table.

There was water enough now to wash the gravel, instead of laboriously dry-sorting it, water enough to wash the sieved gravel over the slanting grease tables.

He knew that his father had ransacked the ruins for treasure, he had even torn up and sieved the earth of this temple enclosure for gold.

The interior was too narrow to open the car door very wide, and rather than struggle squeezing through, I disappeared and sieved out.

I grinned and left the car, dashed up the hack steps, and sieved through, re-forming again inside the kitchen.

Like invisible vapor through a grille, I sieved swiftly through the minute spaces and cracks in the barrier until fully clear.

It was probably Escott, but I dragged on my bathrobe and sieved through the wall to make sure.

Anthony's flat at the far end of the fifth floor's hall and sieved inside.

Every packet of cereal had been poured out, sugar and flour had been emptied and apparently sieved in a strainer.

The intruder hadn’t been certain there was a safe, I thought, or he wouldn’t have sieved the sugar.