For the next few days the chief problem of correspondents was to winnow truth from fable in untold rumors (flourishing in Sweden in particular) of expeditions, battles, disasters.
Simmons has given herself a six-month deadline to winnow her stuff to 100 things--or at least 100 categories of things.
Things were getting so tough that the host committee, trying to winnow Hollywood's must-be-seen-there thousands down to a sociable 400, flatly decided to discriminate against .
Town Board looks to define grant requests At Tuesday’s Town Board work session members began to winnow down projects they want to ask government agencies to help fund.
June 20, 2013 - The Shelter Island Reporter
Ken Mehlman in Seattle Times What's so amazing about this election cycle is that everything that's happened from the beginning, including in Iowa, has made it more open and more fluid, whereas usually the effect of the process is to winnow down the candidates,said Ken...
Henry Louis Gates in Business Wire (press release) We were thrilled to receive so many applications, and deeply impressed at the large number of people who have already made great strides in researching their family history,said Professor Gates. "It was extremely difficult to winnow those...