What is "filtering"

Usage examples of "filtering".

I lay there in the semidarkness for what felt like an eternity, afraid to move, the first moon of the new year filtering through the ivory curtains.

This Samhain had seen the greatest hunt in ages, and, satiated at last on human blood and human meat, even the hags slept under the weight of the noon sun now filtering down from the upper reaches of the roof in pale shafts of watery light.

From the front hall window I watched him run in the late afternoon sunshine under the filtering trees, up Linnaean Street toward Mass Ave.

Family employed a similar one, prepared by heating great, reeking gobs of animal fat until it liquified, then filtering the substance through dried grasses or reeds until you refined the pure tallow.

In fact, two of the unpredicted quakes had finally been attributed to lakes being dug, one as far as five hundred miles away, water filling the lake, filtering down into the cracks in the rocks and lubricating hidden faults.

The forest covered a sizable piece of land, eventually filtering down into a terrain of semidesert, dotted with sagebrush and mesquite.

I liked to compare it to the subcortex, generating your quick but base impulses, and Ground Control instead was like your cortex, filtering and directing those impulses.

Later, they heard a rushing sound, a thump and the thud of feet over their heads, but not until they rounded another down-tilting curve and saw the faint light filtering into the cavern through iron bars did they spot the batlike creatures with the spear-shaped proboscises hanging overhead.

International Sanctions Enforcement Groupwere filtering back in from their briefing and into their seats as Weiskopf walked to the front of the room with Newman, McDade, Robertson, and Coombs behind him.

Such of the smoke as evaded the hole in the roof drifted blue among the rafters and pillars above, joining that from ordinary family hearths spaced around the big building and gradually filtering out through the thatch.

Never again would he sleep in his dining-room and wake with the light filtering through those curtains bought by Winifred at Nickens and Jarveys with the money of James.

Near the surface, it looked more molelike than she had expected, its dark eyes squinting at the light filtering in the open door.

The air duct outlets were easy to spot because of light filtering upward.

The moonlight filtering in lit up silver puddles and sprays of cobweb.

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