riffle
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He revved the engine as the boat sped around a bend and up a riffle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
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
Someone — I think it was John Ashbery — said that you can usually pick up a book of poems, riffle through it and tell in about 10 seconds if it’s for you.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2021
Squads of scientists have packed in 1,000 pounds of gear by mule train for riverscape surveys, counting fish in every riffle, glide and pool.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2020
He reached over to one of the books sitting open on the desk and began to riffle through the pages.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
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
Open a dictionary for the obscure but clearly defined literary devices that John Grant riffles through in “Rhetorical Figure” — yes, “epizeuxis” and “paraprosodokians” mean something.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2021
Joe took off his shoes, rolled up his pants, and waded quietly into the shallow riffles upstream from the pool.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
"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
At first it looks like a revelation in looseness, as if McPhee had simply riffled through his voluminous back catalog.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2018
Merriman had been researching the African-American Muslim diaspora, and she riffled through her notes.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018
He riffled through the stacks of paper and pulled out a folded-up section.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
An algorithm can now perform in seconds what would once have required weeks of officers riffling through papers and records.
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
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
The image of those riffling pages below seized my attention.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
A cool breeze rose from the river, waking me and riffling the edges of my skirt.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
