Sentence examples for riffle from inspiring English sources
The word 'riffle' is correct and usable in written English
It is most commonly used as a verb, meaning to flip through or shuffle quickly and at random, as with pages in a book or cards in a deck. It can also be used as a noun, referring to a slight wave or ripple on the surface of water. Example: She riffled through the pages of her notebook, searching for the notes she had taken in class. Example: The gentle breeze caused the lake to riffle, creating a peaceful and calming sound.
verb
To flow over a fast moving shallow part of a stream.
In areas of high biological productivity (e.g., gravel-bottomed, hard-water, temperate-zone streams), as many as 1,400 nymphs have been found in one square foot of surface, and one gravel riffle has yielded as many as 33 species.
For reasonably priced threads, head round the corner to Gorman (16) – a celebrated Australian fashion label – at 100 St Georges Terrace (00 61 9481 5970; gormanshop.com.au), or walk 12 minutes north to riffle through the racks of Ruck Rover General Store (17) at 242 William Street (00 61 8 9228 3502; ruckrover.com.au).au
It can riffle along feeling very calm, but if you press on the odd random gearchange can intrude and it does get a little bit rushed.
The weekend There are a number of vintage and antiques stores to riffle through on the High Street, including the curiosity shop downstairs.
He erases the roof, too, by using horizontal clusters of thin, clear polycarbonate discs that riffle very slightly in the breeze; from some angles, they're almost invisible.
Pool and riffle, deep and shallow portions of an undulating stream bed.
In the margins of Tom's school copy of "A Portrait of the Artist," he drew a two-hundred-page riffle-animation of a stick-figure pole-vaulter clearing a hurdle, landing on his head, and being carted away on a stretcher by stick-figure E.M.S. personnel; this seemed to me a masterwork of filmic art and science.
Jay shuffled the deck, I riffle-shuffled the deck and handed it back to him, and he said, "And I'll deal six hands of poker — one for myself and five for you.
The boy's sanctimonious Aunt Demetria Riffle Angela Reedd) is termed a "pismire" by Gramps, who defines that as "one of the meanest ants there is".
Rebecca Wingo, 32, was a single mother with two daughters, a "lovely young woman," her friend Gail Riffle said, who took classes at Aurora Community College and attended Mile Hi Church in Lakewood, Colo.
On "Gator Boys," which has its premiere Sunday on Animal Planet (though a teaser episode has already been shown), Paul Bedard and Jimmy Riffle run an alligator-trapping business in Florida that a cute volunteer named Ashley wants to learn, but they would rather she just clean up gator droppings.
