rifling
Example Sentences
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But she has deep knowledge of women’s pay: As an economist, she spent years rifling through boxes of surveys and personnel records and tracking down data to document women’s changing role in the workplace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Pope got the assist for the second goal as Antonio Silva failed to intercept his throw and 27-year-old Barnes sped clear before rifling low and hard into the far corner.
From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025
Still, even in a movie where people are always skulking around rifling through each other’s things, his claim that he chose a drunken late night to confront Maggie about plagiarism sounds inconceivable.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
We meet in Notting Hill's Music and Video Exchange – the shop that kick-started his record collection – and it's only when he starts rifling through the racks that the 50-year-old comes to life.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025
A few rows down, I spot Mom sitting on her bed, rifling through the drawer of her pine nightstand.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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