How To Use Riffle In A Sentence
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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
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It'll be nice to open the parcel and riffle through the pages of a new book.
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She finishes rehearsal, returns to her rented atelier in Chelsea and riffles through her (mostly Canadian) collection of music.
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The channel morphology was characterized by alternating riffle, run, and pool segments that averaged 10-15 m in length.
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I riffled through a book called ‘The Book of Shadows’ by Lady Sheba.
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Faintly, though not frequently, a riffle of doubt perturbs Krugman's chipmunk paeans to the Clinton Age.
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He threw a stone in the pond,and the water riffled for a long while and lay quiet again.
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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.’
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He threw a stone in the pond,and the water riffled for a long while and lay quiet again.
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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.
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The pirogue was still quite firmly settled into the Missouri mud, though in fact it was no worse off than the steamer, grounded for the night on what the river men called a riffle, or sandbar.
The Berrybender Narratives
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I riffled though my wardrobe (most of the costumes used are from my wardrobe) and found a 1960s sundress, totally perfect for Lee Krasner on holiday.
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Today, none of the riffleshell species the researchers found in ancient middens survive at the study sites, where they were gathered by Native Americans over the millennia before European settlement.
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Only a devout rationalist could see the image of the Book of Gospels on the coffin, its pages riffled by unseen fingers - okay, the wind - and not find it eerie.
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And he would smile and say, “Your riffle is imperfect.”
Skzbrust: Learning Poker
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Both salmon and trout grow faster in deep, low-velocity pools than in shallow, high-velocity riffles.
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With the fish leaping constantly I led it surely but gently upstream onto the shallow riffle in order to beach it.
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He threw a stone in the pond,and the water riffled for a long while and lay quiet again.
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We clambered over mossy boulders beneath a canopy of big-leaf maple, bay, and fir, and covered six-tenths of a mile of sparkling riffles and cascades.
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The bay was a dull, tarnished silver, nothing moving out there, no birds, no boats, not even the riffle of wind.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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We limited our selection of sites to approximately second to fourth order streams, and selected sites with naturally-occurring riffle zones having gravel-cobble-boulder substrate.
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Surfaces can be smoothed down by rasps, files, and rifflers or by carborundum and emery, and the addition of water avoids a build-up of dust.
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It's many's the time I shot the self-same riffle before, and it's many's the time after, but niver a wink of the same have I seen.
The Men of Forty-Mile
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We can't help but cast to cutbanks, because beside the bright riffles and transparent pools, a cutbank is a dark corner left to the imagination.
Big Trout Hideouts
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The red flags were riffled by the breeze.
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I will stick to the 12 gauge and bolt riffle, that is my comfort zone.
F&S Picks the 25 Best AR-Style Rifles
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While Romi riffled through the address book, little Siddharth butted in with the numbers.
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The indios picked up their children in the plaza beyond and shook them with joy; cool wind riffled clean cyan cotton blouses.
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Then it became clear that here is a key to the phenomena of atmospheric circulation, from the great polar-equatorial maelstrom which manifests itself in the trade-winds to the most circumscribed riffle which is announced as a local storm.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
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Down below, tiny fiddler crabs raced along the mud, the males each waving an oversized pincer as minnows and larger fish riffled the water's surface.
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Series of profound innovations pushed Canadian public education to the zenith of prosperity, and also to the riffle of difficulties.
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Oh, I read a lot of excerpts, saw a play or two, took in the movie Shakespeare in Love and riffled through King Lear enough to realize he was no relation (having only daughters).
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I could hit the high spots with a flat file and use a riffler in the curves, a lot of scraping and some sanding.
Mandolin Cafe News
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She riffled her husband's diary.
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Undoutedly I will die before the ultimate wader is found at the end of the riffle!!
How Long Should Waders Last?
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The tools used for more refined work include gouges, drills, various types of chisel, a mallet, rasps, files, and rifflers, some of which duplicate the tools used in stonecarving and modelling.
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They may riffle or strip too high and, again, inadvertently expose cards allowing you to know their approximate location.
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Jimmie carried the 'riffle' referred to in Cecelia Anne's text and a handful of blank cartridges.
New Faces
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The springs contain the only remaining populations of two small fish, the fountain darter and the San Marcos gambusia; the Texas blind salamander; the San Marcos salamander; the Comal Springs Riffle beetle, the Comal Springs Dryopid beetle, the Peck's cave amphipod, an invertebrate; and Texas wild-rice.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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Each student riffles through the day's recipes, contained in a dark green Raffles Culinary Academy file folder, as Chef Charlie's assistant gets a massive pot of water boiling on a gas-fired hob about a meter in front of the class seats.
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I promise. vtbluegrass ... a caddis with a yellow foam post that rises over the wing so semi-blind anglers (no name) can track it in the riffles.
It's All About Habitat
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The bay was a dull, tarnished silver, nothing moving out there, no birds, no boats, not even the riffle of wind.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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Pouching the envelope David took his thumb and slowly riffled the little pad of bills it contained as he held it out for Jack to see.
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This meant behind rocks and other obstructions; beneath undercut banks; in or near the riffles, where the surface is ruffled and opaque; at the inside corners of those meanders; or in the shade of overhanging sagebrush or willows.
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One minute you're in a sharp, spluttering, stony riffle, and then you're in a swift, frictionless, swirling run, or in a deep slow pool of long vowels and slow consonants.
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Laurel, a pretty and perky brunette who finds it calming to riffle through card catalogs and likes to alphabetize books for fun, laments the fact that motherhood has forced her to curtail her reading.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The By-The-Book Librarian
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The bluebreast darter is threatened in Ohio; it occurs in the swift, rocky riffles of Big Darby Creek, a State and National Scenic River in Ecoregion 55e.
Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA)
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At night, some subdominant fish can be observed in pool and riffle margins, although numbers are low relative to the number of fish active by day.
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They added more than 20 riffle weirs, 15 post vanes, and 80,000 willows to slow water down, protect streambanks, increase habitat and raise the water table.
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I always riffle through the pile of packages looking for the rump cuts, which are among the smaller and paler slices and are made up of three muscles, each one separated by a fine membrane.
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The tapper and riffler was an agent named Barry Medlar, of the Bureau’s Albany field office.
Mary, Mary
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Surfaces can be smoothed down by rasps, files, and rifflers or by carborundum and emery, and the addition of water avoids a build-up of dust.
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For the sweet-toothed, there will be plum cakes with rum sauce, Yule Log, Souffle Triffle and a choice of Indian sweets, fruits and ice-creams as well.
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He riffled through a few pages, his eyes quickly following the lines.
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As captured on video, the riverscape seemed to consist chiefly of slowwater sections winding through gentle bends and interrupted occasionally by riffles.
The Song of The Dodo
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The red flags were riffled by the breeze.
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This boat is fun in a class 1 riffle, and once you get the hang of it, you can use it to run up to class 3 rapids.
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The ore itself had to be weathered before sluicing in a process similar to gold placering, in which dirt was washed through sluice boxes so that heavier elements-like gold and sapphires-dropped to the bottom and became lodged in riffles.
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For example, if the reach containing the section fished was of high gradient with a predominance of riffles, then the section sampled reflected that character by including a predominance of riffles.
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Track-suited women riffled through the mounds of wild mushrooms, checking for tiny worms.
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The stream has now become nothing more than a sediment sluice with rock pools filled-in with sand and gravel, and former riffle reaches submerged in sediment.
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Chub are stream fish, and like other soft-rayed species, are common in more turbulent riffles and races to which they are displaced by predation risk.
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He rubbed a weary hand over his face and turned towards the small kitchen where he riffled through the fridge, searching for something, anything, that was edible.
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A mediocrity, not disagreeable, always rules; supremity has been, is, and always will be the stick in the riffle around which the little whirlpool will always centre.
The Common Law
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Because you can bet your life, a loaded EU assort riffle pointed at yours, will get you running home to mummy soon enough.
LE WAR ON CAPITALISM
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We look hopefully at markings on our map like Pablo's Rapid and Dead Man Rapid, but they prove to be little more than riffles and a slight acceleration in the current.
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Katie crept up the stairs to her room and quickly riffled through her desk drawer to find her wallet.
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The standard way to mix a deck of playing cards—the one used everywhere from casinos to rec rooms—is what is known as a riffle or "dovetail" shuffle.
Pick a Card, Any Card
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Emerald-headed mallards bob alongside kayakers in the river's riffles of whitewater.
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The mild rapids turn to riffles and become fewer and fewer from here to the takeout.
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Two strips of wood, about an inch square, called riffle-bars, were nailed across the bottom of the cradle-box, one at the middle and the other near the lower end.
The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
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He threw a stone in the pond,and the water riffled for a long while and lay quiet again.
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I riffled through the pages until I reached the index.
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He riffled through the stack of papers on his desk.
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So a current of anxiety riffled the air at ‘Hair.’
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What he wanted to do was pile coins into neat columns, riffle notes, and make neat entries in a cashbook.
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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In the Pacific Northwest, several species of Pacific salmon grow in the riffles of cold-flowing rivers far from the sea.
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He riffled through the stack of papers on his desk.
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Given their natural size advantage, salmon are competitively dominant and increase the proportion of trout occupying riffle habitat, whereas trout have little effect on habitat selection by salmon.
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Sampling reaches were selected to include riffle habitats with substrate composed primarily of cobble, gravel, and boulder.
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A calm surface favors the finesse of a dogwalker, and a riffled surface suggests the increased commotion of a chugger or a slush-type plug rigged with propellers.
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A stiff breeze riffles the brush.
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He compares this to the winnowing of grains in a sieve, or the sorting of pebbles riffled by the tide: it is as if there were a kind of attraction of like to like.
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In natural streams coho salmon and steelhead trout fry tend to occupy pools and riffles, respectively.
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I'd sit down with Rick or Barry and make them riffle through the book of their choice.
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Riffles, another type of coarse deposit, develop beneath the thalweg in locations where the faster flow moves vertically up in the channel.
Fluvial landforms
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In his creel were a dozen trout, for the speckled beauties had been rising to the fly that skipped across the top of the riffles as naturally as life.
A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today
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The bright sun shines in a cloudless sky, and a light breeze riffles the clear waters of an open pool in the sea ice of McMurdo Sound.
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He picked up the first one, riffled through the pages, sighed with contentment and moved on to the next one, then the next.
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Surviving juveniles disperse to the riffles and runs of the river to live on insect larvae and small crustaceans.
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Sampling locations were selected based on suitable habitat consisting of gravel and cobble substrates associated with riffles and runs and, to a large extent, accessibility.
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Underneath this colander-like portion of the long-tom is placed another trough, about ten feet long, the sides six inches, perhaps, in height, which, divided through the middle by a slender slat, is called the riffle-box.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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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
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A stiff breeze riffles the brush.