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"Filter" in a Sentence (26 examples)
In swimming pools, water is continuously pumped through a filter.
You need to filter the output of this command in order to display only the lines with "foo" inside.
Nowadays, almost everyone has a modern bean-to-cup coffee maker, but we are still using a porcelain coffee filter.
I don't like filter coffee.
This dust is impossible to filter from the air.
I had a little problem replacing the oil filter.
The translator was considered as a "neutral filter."
Be sure to clean the lint filter before you run the dryer. Otherwise, you might start a fire.
I don't filter them.
I wish there was a filter on Tatoeba which would allow me to ban from my sight the word "Tom", once and for all.
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Then add four drops of crocodile semen, and pass the mixture through a filter.
He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail.
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
He's got no filter, and he's always offending people as a result.
The collection of cofinite subsets of ℝ is a filter under inclusion: it includes the intersection of every pair of its members, and includes every superset of every cofinite set.
If (1) the universal set (here, the set of natural numbers) were called a "large" set, (2) the superset of any "large" set were also a "large" set, and (3) the intersection of a pair of "large" sets were also a "large" set, then the set of all "large" sets would form a filter.
He don't need no filter posting pictures!
This strainer should filter out the large particles.
“You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.”
Receivers often incorporate digital equalisers to 'mop up' slight intersymbol interference after initial filtering at the receiver.
But fans’ emotions are no longer filtered through ticket or album sales; they’re heard directly, constantly, at all hours, on all the platforms people visit to generate and extinguish bad feelings in a never-ending cycle.
The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
The water filtered through the rock and soil.
The crowd filtered into the theater.
I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering.
Most people get filtered by that episode.
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