Examples of 'winnowing' in a sentence
Meaning of "winnowing"
To winnow means to separate grain from chaff using a current of air, typically by tossing it in the air. Figuratively, it can also mean to sift through and select what is desirable or valuable from what is not. This term is often used metaphorically
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- present participle of winnow
- The act of separating chaff from grain.
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His winnowing fork is merciful and necessary.
Those professors doing the winnowing were trained to do so.
Winnowing usually follows threshing in grain preparation.
By those that winnow with a winnowing.
Winnowing of that sort is a product of market dynamism.
By those who winnow with a winnowing.
She has a winnowing fan on her head.
Her ears are as large as winnowing fan.
But the winnowing process continues.
He will winnow the nations with a destructive winnowing.
Winnowing it from every unit in the corporate structure.
This method of separating components of a mixture is called winnowing.
By this winnowing process he had been enabled to select the.
We know what winnow or winnowing means.
We are winnowing a very large collection.
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They may be sifting and winnowing even today.
Winnowing separates the grain from the chaff.
We have to put the winnowing machine in the moulded room.
Winnowing of this vast set of candidates is currently under way.
A kind of mental winnowing process.
A winnowing process is underway to determine who are the good.
The chaff is removed by winnowing.
He was winnowing grain all day.
The wings are removed through a technique that is similar to winnowing.
Friedberg began winnowing his collection a few years ago.
After sorting and winnowing.
What emerges in the winnowing process is only the best stuff.
The last step is winnowing.
A lot of winnowing has been done.
Excellent mental winnowing.
That means winnowing out content that extols individualism or hedonism.
He holds his winnowing fan.
I developed my categories through an extensive literature review and statistical winnowing.
Cocoa shells were obtained from winnowing roasted cocoa beans.
Its purpose is to modify the blood and prepare it for the winnowing.
Russian women using a hand powered winnowing machine in a threshing barn.
A winnowing barn consists of a large shed on tall posts with a hole in the floor.
This is winnowing time.
His prototype inventions were tested as corn grinders and a winnowing machine.
The only hard part was winnowing the drawings to a publishable number.
After a marathon of winnowing.
Winnowing is an agricultural method developed by ancient cultures for separating grain from chaff.
The process may comprise winnowing the raw feed material.
Winnowing out the wheat from chaff is always a challenge after so long in the earth.
Chaffing and winnowing.
A vibrating screen and a winnowing device are provided following the bran brushing device.
These spotted seeds could not be removed by winnowing or seed floatation.
Cleaning the seeds by winnowing them before storage may remove the fungal spores.
Shipload was winnowing.
It is a hostile winnowing process that many potentially good candidates would not want to endure.
