riffle
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The stream banks were denuded of vegetation and the riffle crests obliterated as the choked stream tried to reach the sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
He makes some questionable moves himself, like allowing Vivian to riffle through the discovery documents, and the two become unlikely, close friends.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2022
Wyoming’s rivers would be difficult to monitor for enforcing closures because temperatures fluctuate widely throughout the day and from riffle to hole, said David Zafft, fish management coordinator for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2021
At 79, Dylan is entitled to the long view, and his new songs riffle through history, biography, theology, tall tales, myths and threats.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2020
As statistician Persi Diaconis has shown, six to eight riffle shuffles are usually necessary.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Burned trees topple into streams, creating pools and riffles for feeding and spawning.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
All proved extremely willing to take dry flies cast behind rocks or into seams at the edge of riffles.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022
Home Creek riffles through the canyon and underfoot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
Natural river features such as riffles - shallower, faster moving sections of a stream - have been restored to attract white-clawed crayfish and brown trout.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2022
Ever since she set foot in the Catskills, she has talked about, and gone out of her way to find, cascades, cataracts, waterfalls, rills, riffles and niagaras.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
"Mr. Trump would notice if somebody had riffled through them or they were not arranged in a particular way," the New York Times reporters wrote.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2023
They began running through a checklist as the cockpit recorder captured the sound of pages being riffled through.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2019
Merriman had been researching the African-American Muslim diaspora, and she riffled through her notes.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018
He travelled from the Caucasus Mountains to Israel and beyond, and riffled through archives, to unearth ancient ‘founder’ grape varieties.
From Nature ● May 29, 2018
They returned to her office, and while Mother tried to figure out what was happening, Dr. Cooper riffled through a filing cabinet, mumbling to herself.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
I felt a little wrong riffling through them, but I was inspired to witness a collective will to live.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025
In the recording, the former president is heard riffling through papers and saying: "This is highly confidential".
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2023
It is there in the park where her children played when they were young, riffling through the boughs of the palo verde trees, stalking her as she tries to live her life quietly.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2022
Charlotte Sorenson was riffling through a newspaper one morning in December when she recognized someone in a gallery advertisement for a Norman Rockwell painting that she had not seen in years: herself.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2021
I spent two days just riffling uncertainly through the dictionary’s pages.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
