Crossword-Solution: SIFTS 5 letters, 85 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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SIFTS anagram FISTS, STFIS

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Prepares flour for a recipe 1 answer
Runs through a screen 1 answer
Removes lumps from 1 answer
Refines, as flour 1 answer
Puts through a screen 1 answer
Processes, as flour 1 answer
Prepares, as flour for baking 1 answer
Prepares, as flour 1 answer
Prepares flour, as for baking 1 answer
Prepares flour for baking 1 answer
Searches thoroughly, with "through" 1 answer
Prepares flour 1 answer
Pores (through) 1 answer
Plows (through) 1 answer
Pans for gold 1 answer
Painstakingly sorts (through) 1 answer
Makes less lumpy, as flour 1 answer
Makes finer 1 answer
Looks through very closely 1 answer
Is selective 1 answer
Strains, in a way 1 answer
___ through (searches) 1 answer
___ through (searches through) 1 answer
___ through (rummages through) 1 answer
Works with sand 1 answer
Works with flour 1 answer
Weighs, as evidence 1 answer
Uses a strainer 1 answer
Uses a bolter 1 answer
Use a screen 1 answer
Looks (through), as for information 1 answer
Strains, as flour 1 answer
Sprinkles, as sugar on a cake 1 answer
Sprinkles, as powdered sugar 1 answer
Sorts carefully 1 answer
Separates, as flour 1 answer
Separates with a sieve 1 answer
Separates the large from the small. 1 answer
Separates carefully. 1 answer
Sends through a sieve 1 answer
Frees of coarseness 1 answer
Filters through a strainer 1 answer
Examines, as evidence 1 answer
Examines with critical eye. 1 answer
Examines thoroughly 1 answer
De-lumps flour 1 answer
Combs (through) 1 answer
Carefully sorts (through) 1 answer
Aerates, as flour 1 answer
Frees of lumps 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SIFTS (5)

They carry down news when tree bloom is out, when the pollen sifts gold from the bushes, and it's time to collect spring roots.
The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1995
Farewell, I mount and go my way, --But oh her hair the sun sifts thro'-- The tilts and tourneys wait my spear, I am the Knight of the Plume of Blue.
Helen of Troy and Other Poems Sara Teasdale 1996
Wakefield sifts his ideas, however, as minutely as he may, and finds himself curious to know the progress of matters at home--how his exemplary wife will endure her widowhood of a week; and, briefly, how the little sphere of creatures and circumstances, in which he was a central object, will be affected by his removal.
Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1996
Nursing her blind desires, which knew not rest In seeking what her wicked love may boot, She her old vices, in her inmost breast, Ransacks for what may best the occasion suit, And sifts them all: then, having overrun A thousand evil thoughts, resolved on one.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
CXIX "He in wide circles doth about her wind, Hoping now here, now there, to spy some trace: But nought in the beginning can he find, With whatsoever care he sifts the case.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996

Quotes with SIFTS (3)

It's like Romeo & Juliet,' I say. 'You can't separate them. Otherwise, there would be no Shakespeare.' Silence. I decide to be more straightforward. I tell him, 'Nothing frightens me anymore. I am not even afraid to die.' Bussey's eyes, already wide open, grow even wider. My death is the last thing he needs. I have the strange feeling that there are two of me. One observes the conversation while the other does the talking. Everything is abnormal, especially this extreme calm …
Mariane Pearl A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl
UPYou wake up filled with dread. There seems no reason for it. Morning light sifts through the window, there is birdsong, you can't get out of bed. It's something about the crumpled sheetshanging over the edge like junglefoliage, the terry slippers gapingtheir dark pink mouths for your feet, the unseen breakfast--some of itin the refrigerator you do not dareto open--you will not dare to eat. What prevents you? The future. The future tense, immense as outer space. You could ge…
Margaret Atwood
When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their …
Alice Hoffman Here on Earth
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 141 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).