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
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
Then there is a closet riffle, which usually reveals when someone thinks she was her best-looking.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
Climbing down out of the tree, I picked up my ax and lantern, and trotted down to another riffle and waded across.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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
The singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and virtuoso whistler Andrew Bird riffles through moods and genres on his holiday album: He’s wistful, sardonic, jaunty and pensive by turns.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2020
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
When fresh copies arrived, we riffled the pages to see whether certain changes had been made.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
He pulled out a cardboard box full of little metal templates for different airlines and riffled through them.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2020
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 climbed into the front of the car, turned around, and, with a wicked grin, held up a stack of bills and riffled them with his thumb.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
Yesterday, in the front yard, I noticed a spot of grass riffling amid the calm sea of blades.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2020
I’m staring up at the very familiar ceiling, my mom is riffling through the same six magazines that have been here since at least February.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
