riffle
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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
“You just riffle through to find the right pack and pull it out,” says Lulu Grimes, the managing editor of BBC Good Food.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2020
The tide pushes a low riffle through the pool, and it washes over her shins and dampens the hem of her dress.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The production riffles through Los Angeles specialties: crunching EDM, orchestral bombast, hair-metal guitars and confessional piano chords.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 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
He riffles the edges of his paperwork and gazes at me sadly.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
"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
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
Told that Mets fans might prefer a more definitive answer, he riffled through some papers on his desk and laughed.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2015
He riffled through and extracted a group of clipped pages.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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
If you skim through “Let Me Finish,” riffling the book like a deck of cards, nearly all you will see is Christie saying, in so many words, I told you so.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2019
In this new climate, most body snatchers extended their territory, riffling the graves of distant cemeteries to space out their raids.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
