Ang kahulugan ng diksyunaryo ng salitang "sifting" ay ang proseso ng paghihiwalay at pagbubukod-bukod sa pamamagitan ng isang substance, madalas na may salaan o katulad na tool, upang maalis ang anumang hindi kanais-nais o extraneous na materyal at mapanatili lamang kung ano ang ninanais o kinakailangan. Ang termino ay maaari ding gamitin nang mas malawak upang sumangguni sa pagkilos ng maingat na pagsusuri o pagsusuri ng isang hanay ng impormasyon o data upang matukoy ang may-katuturan o mahahalagang detalye, pattern, o trend.
1. When I return to the kitchen wearing a loose cotton blouse and a fawn skirt, Shirley is sifting through the pile of assorted magazines and books stacked on top of the bookcase beside the pens.
2. I had kept all my old school reports from Primary school onwards for years and spent an evening sifting through them trying to find answers.
3. He began unpacking his running bag, sifting through his street clothes.
4. Volders was sifting through the folder Peter had brought along as a backup for his emailed references.
5. Besides sifting, testing, and methodising with rare patience and judgment what had been previously brought to light, he left, as the saying is, no stone unturned under which anything to illustrate his subject might possibly be found.
6. But as I delivered myself from that one, I am inclined to believe that there is no other that can hurt me and so, these enchanters, seeing that they cannot exert their vile craft against my person, revenge themselves on what I love most, and seek to rob me of life by maltreating that of Dulcinea in whom I live and therefore I am convinced that when my squire carried my message to her, they changed her into a common peasant girl, engaged in such a mean occupation as sifting wheat I have already said, however, that that wheat was not red wheat, nor wheat at all, but grains of orient pearl.
7. They found the page sifting a little barley for his horse, and Sanchica cutting a rasher of bacon to be paved with eggs for his dinner.
8. What a horrible job those coffee makers had sifting through civet poo all day to harvest coffee beans.
9. I guess I rather do the sifting than the drinking, though.
10. As for Susan and Roly, crime scene techs are still sifting evidence from the cellar.