Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with sift in American Collocation
carefully
painstakingly
slowly
Having carefully sifted all the available information, you must next discard anything you consider to be unreliable, irrelevant or trivial.
archives
documents
evidence
facts
The role of journalism is to sift facts and give you a truthful and factual picture.
After sifting through the evidence, we conclude that British economic prospects are bright.