winnow|winnowed|winnowing|winnows in English

verb

[win·now || 'wɪnəʊ]

separate the grain from the chaff; separate the good from the bad; blow through; scatter; blow over; reduce, narrow; sift through, select the desirable parts

Use "winnow|winnowed|winnowing|winnows" in a sentence

1. I winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land.

2. I will winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land.

3. In Elbow Bower the mower winnowed winnowed the minnows away fro the powwow.

4. The Chaff is winnowed out by the activities of millions of independent actions.: Now that most of the Chaff has been winnowed I hope to be able to concentrate on the wheat.: Time will winnow the wheat from the Chaff but it won't diminish the pleasure of Lane's reviews.: It's easy to fall in love with particular images, even mediocre ones, but with time it also becomes easier to winnow the

5. He is winnowing wheat now.

6. The winnowing was done by women.

7. Adams has winnowed the list of contestants to

8. We need to winnow the list of candidates to three.

9. Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three.

10. She stood there winnowing all day in the field.

11. The girl is winnowing the chaff from the corn.

12. Fitful gusts came winnowing through the smells of many distant fields.

13. She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field.

14. The Arizona primary was supposed to winnow the field of Republican presidential hopefuls.

15. I will winnow them with a fork at the city gates of the land.

16. And tonight, we winnow to 100 and finally to number one.

17. Again the problem is to winnow these down to manageable proportions.

18. Once fitness is created, natural selection is peerless for winnowing out the duds.

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21. The Bible often refers to sowing, reaping, threshing, winnowing, and grinding grain.

22. And tonight, we winnow them down to and finally to number one.

23. Boaz oversaw the winnowing of his grain, which grew into a great heap.

24. These Bracts form the chaff removed from cereal grain during threshing and winnowing

25. When discovered, her face and upper body were protected by a large woven winnowing basket.