English example sentences with "chaff"

The boss said this group is a real mixed bag. I wonder if he places me with the wheat or the chaff.
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Old birds are not caught with chaff.
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That person's so stingy that he won't even let the mouse have the chaff.
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You really are the chaff of humanity.
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Let's separate the wheat from the chaff.
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The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth; and prevented others from improving their minds in useful knowledge. Parents take care to feed their children with wholesome diet; and yet how unconcerned about the provision for the mind, whether they are furnished with salutary food, or with trash, chaff, or poison?
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The two lads who slept in the chaff-cutting loft above the harness-room were quickly aroused.
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It is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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The chaff must be removed from the good wheat.
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Good wheat must be separated from the chaff.
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He separated the wheat from the chaff.
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I'm separating the wheat from the chaff.
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