rifle through
Example Sentences
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"No student should have to rifle through drawers looking for a crumpled certificate when they're preparing for a job interview," Skills Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith said.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026
If that weren’t enough, the government then sent agents to rifle through her car and search her belongings.
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025
To look back at his movies — many of them more amiable than side-splitting — is to rifle through an assortment of hits and misses, a catalog of comic imperfection.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2022
Some are violations of privacy: They can rifle through your closets and drawers.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2021
But today, as I rifle through the stack of shiny magazines and dirt-stained envelopes, I see it.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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