riffle
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The stream banks were denuded of vegetation and the riffle crests obliterated as the choked stream tried to reach the sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
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
Squads of scientists have packed in 1,000 pounds of gear by mule train for riverscape surveys, counting fish in every riffle, glide and pool.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2020
We riffle through several more natural wines – all made with almost zero mechanical or chemical intervention – and they are certainly intriguing.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2017
I riffle through a couple of my sketchbook pages, and even look under my pillow for show, but it’s nowhere to be found.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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
The theater troupe riffles through clothing racks from other Strauss productions for their costumes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 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
Bell shuffles facial expressions the way a magician riffles cards and can switch directions three times in a single sentence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2019
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
"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
When fresh copies arrived, we riffled the pages to see whether certain changes had been made.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
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
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
I asked by shrugging my shoulders, she tapped the page, “My Life,” she said again, I riffled the pages, there must have been a thousand of them, I put the stack down, “What is this?”
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
An algorithm can now perform in seconds what would once have required weeks of officers riffling through papers and records.
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
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
The women were all sitting up and knitting or riffling through magazines or putting their hair in pin curls and chattering like parrots in a parrot house.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
