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

French superstar Mbappe had a goal ruled out for handball moments before Morocco international Ounahi fired Girona ahead, rifling home from just inside the area to stun their illustrious visitors.

From Barron's • Nov. 30, 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

They’re in the hut right now, hunched over slips of paper, scratching away with colored pencils, rifling through German dictionaries.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin