How to Use chaff in a Sentence

chaff

noun
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  • And banks have the ability to sift between the wheat and chaff.
    — Joydeep Ghosh, Quartz India, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Keep all your gear in the blind with you or cover it with chaff or brush.
    — Joe Weimer, Outdoor Life, 22 Feb. 2021
  • But how to separate the proverbial blender wheat from the chaff?
    — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Shake the bag well and pour seeds out onto a plate, blow on them to separate the chaff.
    — Jessica Damiano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Weird machines rolled along scooping up the rows and spitting chaff out the back.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2021
  • Pour them onto a plate, then blow on them to separate the chaff.
    — Jessica Damiano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
  • And the music press emerged to help separate wheat from chaff.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Time for Katie to separate the husband wheat from the husband chaff.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 20 July 2021
  • The reckless use of chaff in the incident placed the P-8 crew in serious danger.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2022
  • These rules will help to sort the wheat from the chaff in scientific reporting.
    — WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Also throw whatever chaff is left over from the harvest on top of the blanket to blend in better.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Archaeologists know this from a thick layer of dusty chaff buried in the cave’s floor.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2020
  • That’s because this whole grain is roasted or smoked, then polished or beaten to remove the chaff.
    — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 5 May 2023
  • Religion, in the hands of some folks, has transformed into a type of judgment, a way of separating the wheat from the chaff.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Basil seeds are tiny, so separating them from the small flower petals and chaff can be tedious.
    — Jessica Damiano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
  • And that’s basically removing the chaff from the seed — all the plant material, all the seed capsules.
    — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 22 July 2021
  • The wheat has been separated from the chaff, and the divisional round will narrow things further.
    — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
  • The wheat then passed through a fast-spinning cylinder behind the cab, which threshed it before sending it through a series of sieves that separated the grain from the chaff.
    — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • The drone can turn up to 9Gs while evading other aircraft and missiles, and can even pop its own chaff and flares in an attempt to distract incoming threats.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Australia’s government complained that the chaff, had it been ingested by the P-8’s engines, could have caused the aircraft to lose control.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
  • Listening to Khaled’s albums is like searching for blessings amidst the chaff, and the signal-to-noise ratio is generally low.
    — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The only memorable datum in 300 pages of chaff was the fact that, not counting his brothers, Jim Buckley had stood up as best man for five different bridegrooms.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 5 Oct. 2020
  • On a stupid level, the SocialSim sarcasm detector can be used by companies trying to separate the wheat from the chaff of salty customer feedback.
    — Virginia Heffernan Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune, 1 June 2021
  • Two panels appear exposed near the nose that could be the launching locations for chaff and flares, which the drone uses to simulate an evading enemy aircraft.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Advocates claim this provides precise, even heating of the beans while removing chaff that might otherwise affect the flavor.
    — al, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Wheat and chaff combined into a slurry that publishers desperately tried to hock as the internet shrank ad revenues.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Teachers are often overwhelmed by the sheer volume of instructional materials out there and can struggle to separate the wheat from the chaff in any kind of efficient way.
    — Mike McShane, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The bus station’s atmosphere appeared to be teeming only with the usual bacterial chaff.
    — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • And some people who stop their vehicles at red lights chaff, figuratively, at wearing masks in public, because freedom.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Unfortunately, practices for qualifying and scoring leads, like BANT (budget, authority, need, timing), force teams to hand-pick the wheat from the chaff.
    — Pekka Koskinen, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021

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