Sifted

All that was left of the 1667 Brick Chapel in Maryland's first Colonial capital were its huge, 3-foot-thick brick foundation and thousands of fragments of glass, lead, brick and plaster sifted from the soil during 20 years of painstaking archaeology. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Immediately roll the truffles in sifted cocoa powder, icing sugar or finely chopped nuts ❋ Mrs Frog (2009)

Using wooden spoon, gently stir in sifted flour and milk. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Police here actually have to seek out information, discover and locate evidence, sifted from a large number of variables. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

Transfer mixture to large bowl, stir in sifted dry ingredients. ❋ Mrs Frog (2006)

The first Puritan settlers had crossed the ocean to found their city set upon a hill, an example to other nations, a chosen people, the grain that God had sifted from a whole nation to plant in the empty continent. ❋ Unknown (1969)

They are carpetless and uncurtained, their dim twilight being sifted from the burning glare without through green mattings hung at the windows. ❋ Unknown (1891)

Usually, one assistant comes into the bedroom with a pot of Indonesian coffee (the brew, six hundred dollars a pound and DHL'd from England, where it is rumored to be a favorite of the Royal Family, is sifted from the dung of wild civets) while a second factotum presents me with a freshly bound volume containing selections from every blog and Twitter and Facebook entry that has mentioned my name in the past twenty-four hours -- hundreds of pages, with "BRUCE WAGNER" in convenient boldface -- but even this lost its allure. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As the feast drew to a close, the graver members of the party stole off to the drawing-room, leaving behind them that happy remnant which may be called the sifted wheat of the stack. ❋ Unknown (1832)

But cops have kind of sifted through the people they don ` t think are involved at all. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ANC chief whip's office has proposed in a document circulated to parties that the questions to Mbeki also be "sifted", in a process involving Speaker Frene Ginwala. ❋ Unknown (2000)

But I do deny that their culture was an automatic product of their environment "sifted" (by what mysterious hand of nature, pray tell?) across millennia to conform to "environmental constraints" as Diamond so strangely asserts. ❋ Diamond, Jared (1997)

So we kind of sifted right through the cracks at that point. ❋ ITY National Archives (1994)

There warn't no soda neither, so the white folks took watermelon rinds, fixed 'em keerful like we does fer perserves, burned 'em an 'took the ashes an' sifted 'em an 'used 'em fer soda. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

In both cases the post of minister is advertised as vacant, applicants send in names, which are "sifted," after which process the most suitable are asked to come and perform a service, and finally the _Pappi_ of Finland, or minister of Scotland, is chosen by the people. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

We called ourselves 'sifted'; traitors and thieves had gone over to the stronger party. ❋ Dietlof Van Warmelo (1919)