Sentence examples for riffles from inspiring English sources

Soldiers toting Chinese-made T-56 assault riffles man checkpoints at almost every corner.

A meandering channel commonly is about one and one-half times as long as the valley, and it exhibits pools in the meander bends and riffles (shallower zones with more turbulent water flow) in the reaches between the meanders.

The most common riffles are transversely mounted wooden bars, but they may also be made of wooden poles, stone, iron, or rubber.

This is a sturdy rectangular box, nearly always built of lumber, with an open top and a bottom roughened by a set of riffles.

Water and placer dirt are introduced at the upper end of the inclined sluice box, and, as they flow downward, the specially shaped riffles agitate the current, preventing lighter material from settling while retaining the valuable heavy mineral.

The sample can be poured through a set of riffles that uniformly splits it into two (or more) streams.

Movement of the solid load down a river valley is irregular, both because the streamflow is irregular and because the transported material is liable to enter temporary storage, forming distinctive river-built features that range through riffles, midstream bars, point bars, floodplains, levees, alluvial fans, and river terraces.

The simplest riffles design is a stationary arrangement of alternating chutes surmounted by a wide hopper, fabricated from sheet metal.

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.

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Edward Turnbull, Northumberland I cut out it Mandy's article to show my grandmother, who riffled through her handbag and waved the same clipping at me.