rifle through
idiom
: to search through something quickly and carelessly often in order to take or steal something
He rifled through the papers on his desk.
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Fed up, Barbara asks Ava for help in reviving her youth, and the pair rifle through Ava’s office closet, allowing Ava to live out her movie-makeover dreams, except the end result is like watching Pretty Woman in reverse with Barbara emerging looking more like a City Girl than a grandma.
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Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
In the second incident, in September, a Secret Service agent saw a man hiding in the bushes and pointing a rifle through a fence at Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach while Trump was playing there.
—Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
Advertisement Prosecutors say Routh methodically plotted to kill Trump for weeks before aiming a rifle through the shrubbery as Trump played golf at his West Palm Beach country club on Sept. 15.
—Kate Payne, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
What happened: Authorities said a man stuck the barrel of a rifle through the fence at the edge of the golf course while the former president was golfing.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
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Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
In the second incident, in September, a Secret Service agent saw a man hiding in the bushes and pointing a rifle through a fence at Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach while Trump was playing there.
—Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
Advertisement Prosecutors say Routh methodically plotted to kill Trump for weeks before aiming a rifle through the shrubbery as Trump played golf at his West Palm Beach country club on Sept. 15.
—Kate Payne, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
What happened: Authorities said a man stuck the barrel of a rifle through the fence at the edge of the golf course while the former president was golfing.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
See All Example Sentences for rifle through
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“Rifle through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rifle%20through. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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