Read full poem →With added years, if life bring nothing new,
But, like a sieve, let every blessing through,
Some joy still lost, as each vain year runs o'er,
Dictionary Entry
A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
In a Sentence
“Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “sieve”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →From crudeness ripeness mellow and sanitive;
Ever mine own, till Death shall ply his sieve;
And still mine own, when saints break grave and sing.
Read full poem →diamonds
Through the sieve of the straw of the plait.
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Read full poem →And the sunlight sidled, like dewdrops, like dandled diamonds
Through the sieve of the straw of the plait.
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Read full poem →Yet men will murder upon holy days:
Thou must hold water in a witch's sieve, 120
And be liege-lord of all the Elves and Fays,
Read full poem →Rats in a hamper, swine in a stye,
Wasps in a bottle, frogs in a sieve,
Worms in a carcase, fleas in a sleeve.
Read full poem →And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
Read full poem →fore it come at the arme. It wyl not so soone hit a mannes
sieve or other geare, by the same reason : It hurteth not the
shaft fether, as the lowe bende doeth. It suffereth a man
Read full poem →bracer, may make the sharper shoote. For if the strynge
shoulde lyght upon the bare sieve, the strengthe of the
shoote shoulde stoppe and dye there. But it is best by my
Read full poem →That had she done so who can say
What would have shaken from the sieve?
I might have thrown poor words away