Even bad software was expensive, and few teachers had the time or budget to sift through it to find a program suitable for class.

The police are saying they want us to sift through student records to find someone who matches the description of the remains.

He imagined Savannah sifting through the programming to find the right connections.

He's sifting through to find the perfect phrase he can use later.

The task of sifting through all those sites to find helpful information is monumental.

Patrick sifted through a hundred separate languages and a million different realities to find the answer.

Sifting through them to find a good fit is time consuming.

It need only sift through the minds of those beings to find the one that would suit its purposes.

He sifts through a pile of data to find a story that no one else had found.

"Most successful people I've met have busy schedules but, if they really want to, they'll sift through them to find time."