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"Sieve" in a Sentence (17 examples)
I have a memory like a sieve.
Water runs through a paper towel as if it were a sieve.
Our memory is like a sieve, as we forget almost half of what we have learned within the first twenty minutes.
Arguing with a woman is about as fruitful as scooping up water with a sieve.
She gave the boy a sieve in which to carry water from the well.
Water doesn't stay in a sieve.
The wise ones fashion speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Layla's alibi is leaking like a sieve.
Tantalus, in spite of his thirst, stopped for a moment his efforts for water, Ixion's wheel stood still, the vulture ceased to tear the giant's liver, the daughters of Danaus rested from their task of drawing water in a sieve, and Sisyphus sat on his rock to listen.
It leaks like a sieve.
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Near-synonyms: sifter, strainer, temse
Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
Among, ^([sic]) his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out” all the composite numbers, leaving only the primes.
To be a sieve was to lack clinical judgment, courage, and group loyalty all at once.
Serpulorbis grandis feeds on plankton that it seives ^([sic]) from the water like a clam does.
This was their seventh defeat out of nine finals, including five in a row, and the second half was a chastening experience for the Serie A champions, culminating in them sieving more goals in one match than in the rest of the competition put together.
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