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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anatomy cribriform; ethmoid.

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Examples

  • I'm under the gun a bit here, what with my sieve-like memory and the Freedom Maze Revision Deathmarch and the Tuesday deadline on the panel proposal.

    Fairies in the Big City? deliasherman 2010

  • As I thought of all the men, women and dogs that have been Madonna's sex partners, I recoiled from the image of her pointy sieve-like bra poking holes in Chloie's spleen, liver and pancreas.

    An Uncomfortable Moment With My Former Spinning Instructor 2010

  • A clean background check is only good for a limited period of time if memory serves, its 6 months but my sieve-like mind may have lost the exact span of time - if your application has not been adjudicated within the prescribed period, you have to go through another round of background check and so on.

    The numbers games: House and Senate in 2010, and beyond 2010

  • In his rage over his sieve-like Pentagon back in 2002, he wanted to hunt them down.

    Rumsfeld to use classified documents in memoir Steven E. Levingston 2010

  • In his rage over his sieve-like Pentagon back in 2002, he wanted to hunt them down.

    Rumsfeld to use classified documents in memoir Steven E. Levingston 2010

  • Defense was still an issue at times, but the Wizards obeyed Tapscott's demand to be more physical under the basket, as opposed to the ` ` sieve-like, letting people go down the lane '' approach he had seen in the team's previous games.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • Even in the round‑up blather at the end he was strangely gripping, this time in a sieve-like hat that made him look like your granny pretending to be a cowboy.

    Cricket fails the cool test even with disco umpires and crick-babes 2010

  • Former Duke head coach Ted Roof was hired as the defensive coordinator, the latest man asked to turn this sieve-like unit around.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • I meant "sieve-like" - and it would be counterproductive, if not downright suicidal, to want it to go down just to prove a conservative critique of Keynesian economics. ...

    Never Yet Melted 2009

  • My brain, being sieve-like, sifted it into some inaccessible nook or cranny, and I forgot.

    Cure-All Lindy 2007

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