How to use "sift" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

Example sentences for "sift" in popular movie and book plots

Together the penguin and the parrot sift through a flurry of quirky songs, each one possessing a more peculiar title than the last. - Love Birds (musical)
Talbot continues to sift through the code for bugs to fix because the game keeps crashing when it runs. - The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May
When Beth and Harry sift through their camera, they discover they were filmed sleeping. - Uninhabited (film)
He's going to sift through all the bruised, damaged, occasionally psychotic fruit until he finds "the one". - Unhitched
Delaware and Sturgis sift the evidence piece by piece in this complicated case. - Alex Delaware

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