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rifling

verb as in ransack

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Example Sentences

This was meant to put boosters on the near-trillion-tonne berg, rifling it up into the South Atlantic and certain oblivion.

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He did so, but then the neighbour found him rifling through drawers and cupboards for things to steal.

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Marc Skinner's side remained firmly in control and struck once more as Lisa Naalsund atoned for an earlier miss by rifling home from the edge of the box as Brighton failed to clear a set-piece.

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She described how the couple stopped going shopping for fear of being caught and started rifling through bins at Brighton's Hollingbury Golf Club.

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The England forward got his second just after the restart, latching on to a clever Odegaard pass then cutting inside and rifling a shot into the roof of the net.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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