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
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
Then there is a closet riffle, which usually reveals when someone thinks she was her best-looking.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
She could open it and riffle through the pages and find the answers she needed.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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
Bell shuffles facial expressions the way a magician riffles cards and can switch directions three times in a single sentence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2019
He riffles the edges of his paperwork and gazes at me sadly.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
One former White House official told the Times that Trump would notice if anyone had riffled through the materials and or were not arranged in a particular way.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 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
The summer breeze riffled my clothes, chilling the sweat that beaded on the nape of my neck.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
I felt a little wrong riffling through them, but I was inspired to witness a collective will to live.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025
The songs often morph through multiple changes of tempo and texture, riffling unpredictably through indie-rock austerity, orchestral lushness, pop perkiness and hallucinatory electronic studio concoctions, like the cascade of wavery, overlapping piano lines in “Connect.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
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
Sahil said, riffling the pages of my notebook, which was on the table, and looking at me questioningly.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
