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
Someone — I think it was John Ashbery — said that you can usually pick up a book of poems, riffle through it and tell in about 10 seconds if it’s for you.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2021
“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
Finding a riffle, we pulled off our shoes and started across.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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
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
He riffles through the rest of the stuff, looking for what she requested, and finds it beneath a napkin with a circular stain on it.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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
When fresh copies arrived, we riffled the pages to see whether certain changes had been made.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
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
“Dogs would never do that mirror jump,” the ringmaster, Vicki Shields, said as she riffled through a box full of shiny, feathery wands used to entice the cats through the obstacles.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2017
Holly riffled through the shelf of patterns, leaving me alone to think.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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
Charlotte Sorenson was riffling through a newspaper one morning in December when she recognized someone in a gallery advertisement for a Norman Rockwell painting that she had not seen in years: herself.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2021
I scramble to my feet, riffling through my closet for a clean skirt and pulling off my nightgown without even asking for the privacy I usually demand while changing.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
