Wiktionary
a. Resembling a sieve; thus, having holes through which fluids can pass
Usage examples of "sievelike".
Lacking insulation of any kind, the sievelike walls admitted icy draughts of wind and moisture.
Above each an odd, sievelike device dangled by a dozen wires from a pivoting boom.
Remembrance made out a bulbous head lifting above the water, with a broad sievelike beak.
The light was sufficient at first, slipping through several sievelike holes in the ceiling, but was quickly choked out by the deeper chamber shadows.
A strafing rain roosted in the skies overhead, tearing through the sievelike forest canopy as it had all that day.
A respectable collection of sievelike holes appeared in the plane cabin.
The melted lead drops through sievelike openings, the resulting spheres of the metal being allowed to fall into water which chills them.
At the bottom of the tank were tiny, sievelike holes, blocked by metal beneath.
Sunshine enforcement agency had been sievelike, and it seemed to me that there had to be corruption.