[
UK
/ɹˈɪfəl/
]
[ US /ˈɹɪfəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɪfəɫ/ ]
VERB
-
look through a book or other written material
She leafed through the volume
He thumbed through the report - stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
-
twitch or flutter
the paper flicked
NOUN
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
How To Use riffle In A Sentence
- He puts down the pen and uses the free hand to riffle some pages -- But there weren't such bruises in this case? THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
- It'll be nice to open the parcel and riffle through the pages of a new book.
- She finishes rehearsal, returns to her rented atelier in Chelsea and riffles through her (mostly Canadian) collection of music.
- The channel morphology was characterized by alternating riffle, run, and pool segments that averaged 10-15 m in length.
- I riffled through a book called ‘The Book of Shadows’ by Lady Sheba.
- Faintly, though not frequently, a riffle of doubt perturbs Krugman's chipmunk paeans to the Clinton Age.
- He threw a stone in the pond,and the water riffled for a long while and lay quiet again.
- So she decided to create a book in which ‘his past and present could be collated and given to him - to riffle through, see, read and preserve.’
- He threw a stone in the pond,and the water riffled for a long while and lay quiet again.
- A rainbow stud, resplendent in his best dress uniform, stakes out and defends his riffle against all invaders, threatening would-be rivals with vicious fin-to-fin combat.