How to Use riffle in a Sentence

riffle

1 of 2 verb

• He riffled the pages of the magazine.
• Web research is convenient but doesn't offer the tactile pleasures of riffling through heavy old books.
• The big sky flares deep pink and blue, riffled with puffy rows of high clouds.
  — National Geographic, 13 June 2017
• After stealing the purse, the thief hid it inside her own purse, and then riffled through it in the parking lot.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• The bear was riffling through garbage cans like a homeless person looking for food.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 9 Dec. 2017
• The sun is intoxicating, and the wind is riffling her wig and gently cooling the piping hot Cup O' Noodles in her hand.
  — Caity Weaver, GQ, 26 Mar. 2018
• For fastidious gamers, there’s less need to keep the components pristine, allowing you the guilty pleasure of riffling all your cards.
  — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2017
• The officers had riffled through Becky and Philip’s belongings and seized their computers, cell phones, financial papers, and the mortar and pestle Philip had used to crush Becky’s pills.
  — Ann Neumann, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Pipe noted that in Butler’s otherwise immaculate home, there was evidence that someone had riffled through files in her home office and strewn them across the floor.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
• He's riffled through the data of nuclear seismic data in years past and called out other researchers who credited the North Korean regime with nuclear blasts.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
• Havana’s nightly symphony of babies, televisions, dogs, car horns, conversations and slammed doors riffles easily through porous buildings – and not so plush.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 11 July 2019
• He riffled the pages of the magazine.
• Web research is convenient but doesn't offer the tactile pleasures of riffling through heavy old books.
• The big sky flares deep pink and blue, riffled with puffy rows of high clouds.
  — National Geographic, 13 June 2017
• After stealing the purse, the thief hid it inside her own purse, and then riffled through it in the parking lot.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• The bear was riffling through garbage cans like a homeless person looking for food.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 9 Dec. 2017
• The sun is intoxicating, and the wind is riffling her wig and gently cooling the piping hot Cup O' Noodles in her hand.
  — Caity Weaver, GQ, 26 Mar. 2018
• For fastidious gamers, there’s less need to keep the components pristine, allowing you the guilty pleasure of riffling all your cards.
  — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2017
• The officers had riffled through Becky and Philip’s belongings and seized their computers, cell phones, financial papers, and the mortar and pestle Philip had used to crush Becky’s pills.
  — Ann Neumann, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Pipe noted that in Butler’s otherwise immaculate home, there was evidence that someone had riffled through files in her home office and strewn them across the floor.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
• He's riffled through the data of nuclear seismic data in years past and called out other researchers who credited the North Korean regime with nuclear blasts.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
• Havana’s nightly symphony of babies, televisions, dogs, car horns, conversations and slammed doors riffles easily through porous buildings – and not so plush.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 11 July 2019

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riffle

2 of 2 noun

• Through the riffle's viewfinder, Mike sees Judy's son in the crowd and drops the weapon.
  — Elizabeth Montgomery, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2020
• The rocks fall to the ground in a big pile, and silt settles in riffles on the sloping ramp of the sluice.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• The riffle beetle lives in the water but can’t swim, and has wings but can’t fly.
  — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Jan. 2022
• There are just enough riffles to spice things up, but nothing to set your teeth on edge.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 8 Nov. 2019
• Choosing to begin the riffle with the same card each time is an example of a prime.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2020
• Steve dropped his fly into a riffle near the bank and instantly brought out a 8-inch rainbow.
  — R. Gregory Nokes | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2020
• Some of the rapids and riffles are starting to open up, but the melting snow and ice will be slowly kicking up river levels and should muddy the waters.
  — cleveland.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Anglers should be able to start catching some near the log jams and any shallow riffle areas using white and chartreuse twister tails.
  — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 2 May 2018
• When abnormally high flows from spring runoff are pounding the outside bends and pushing rocks down the riffles where trout usually hold, the trout move out of the way.
  — John Merwin, Field & Stream, 9 Apr. 2020
• Not long after comes a series of little 10-inch browns, all eager to eat in the same riffle, then a nice rainbow, and then, amazingly, a 14-inch brookie.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 8 Aug. 2021
• Spinners, spoons, small nymphs, streamers, worms and Power Bait should attract some attention in deep pools and riffles.
  — Jordan Rodriguez and Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 15 Dec. 2017
• The waters below the first riffle in the lower parts of the river are possible locations for hungry walleye.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 21 June 2019
• The passage will be about 15-feet wide with riffles and pools mimicking a natural waterway.
  — Marc Daalder, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2018
• Australia has some of the strictest gun laws, baning both assault riffles and other semiautomatic rifles and guns after the Port Arthur killings in 1996.
  — Fox News, 5 June 2019
• Steelhead trout run is on: Lake Erie’s Northeast Ohio tributaries are coming down after the big snows earlier this week, and steelhead trout are moving to the riffles and deep pools.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2019
• The three of us decided to investigate the the smallmouth action on the lower Oconto in late summer, a time when flows are usually down and pools and runs and riffles are well-defined.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2017
• This particular riffle had six species, including the Texas logperch and the Guadalupe bass, both of which have been historically scarce in the Mission Reach.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Nov. 2021
• Guadalupe bass, the jewel-like State Fish of Texas, holding in the rocky runs and riffles and hanging along the current seams or the shadows of undercut banks and otherwise behaving more like freshwater trout than a black bass.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
• Meacham’s long riffle through the files of the totally familiar is not without some interesting findings.
  — Thomas Frank, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Online and at gun shows his company sells a range of gear from ballistic helmets to concealable armor to military-style vests that are able to take several hits from riffle rounds.
  — Nathan Luna, ABC News, 17 June 2022
• Beaver ponds may have warmer surface water than upstream riffles, but those same pools can actually hold colder water at deeper levels.
  — John Myers, Twin Cities, 26 Aug. 2019
• Nymphing slow, consistent pools and runs early and mid-day in the upper basin can be productive, with fish moving into faster riffles to feed when nymphs are drifting, primarily in the afternoons.
  — Colorado Parks & Wildlife, The Denver Post, 21 May 2017
• Durkalec suggested targeting the river waters from the first riffle down to Lake Erie, and reported that successful anglers are pitching casting spoons, in-line spinners and small diving plugs.
  — cleveland, 30 Sep. 2021
• For smaller species, such as water-dwelling riffle beetles (Optioservus fastiditus, also pictured), the miniature ruler helps measure the bug itself, which comes in at a whopping 2 millimeters long.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2017
• The trout and chubs will forage and lounge in a sanctuary of potable and treated water contoured with pools, riffles and waterfalls designed by biologists at Stillwater Sciences, a consulting firm.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• Flatland consultant David Heilman recommended the riffle modification, which involves installing a sloping stepping stone system that mimics the elevation of the dam, but allows fish and sediment to wash over it.
  — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 16 May 2018
• Restoration work, which was funded in part by a grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, included improving the channel pattern, constructing riffles and additional floodplain, bank stabilization structures and native plantings.
  — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 2 May 2018
• Through the riffle's viewfinder, Mike sees Judy's son in the crowd and drops the weapon.
  — Elizabeth Montgomery, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2020
• The rocks fall to the ground in a big pile, and silt settles in riffles on the sloping ramp of the sluice.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• The riffle beetle lives in the water but can’t swim, and has wings but can’t fly.
  — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Jan. 2022

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