Crossword clues for sifts
sifts
- Searches thoroughly, with "through"
- Sends through a sieve
- Puts through a sieve
- Weeds out
- Separates with a sieve
- Searches carefully
- Works with flour
- Puts through a strainer
- Works with sand
- Uses sieve
- Sprinkles, as powdered sugar
- Sorts carefully
- Runs through a screen
- Removes lumps from
- Refines, as flour
- Prepares, as flour
- Prepares flour, as for baking
- Prepares flour for a recipe
- Painstakingly sorts (through)
- Examines thoroughly
- Does a baking task
- De-lumps flour
- Combs (through)
- Carefully sorts (through)
- Separates, in a way
- Examines, as evidence
- Strains, in a way
- Examines closely
- Scrutinizes
- Goes through carefully
- Is selective
- Searches (through)
- Separates, as flour
- Sorts (through)
- Looks (through), as for information
- Sorts (out)
- Winnows
- Selects
- Screens
- Strains, as flour
- Uses a sieve
- Uses a bolter
- Examines carefully
- Prepares flour for baking
- Pans for gold
- Passes through a sieve
- Makes finer
Wiktionary
sifts
vb. (en-third-person singular of: sift)
Usage examples of "sifts".
That openness to new ideas, combined with the most rigorous, sceptical scrutiny of all ideas, sifts the wheat from the chaff.