riffle
verb (used with or without object)
to turn hastily; flutter and shift.
riffles
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present tense formof riffle (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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All proved extremely willing to take dry flies cast behind rocks or into seams at the edge of riffles.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022
Home Creek riffles through the canyon and underfoot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
Natural river features such as riffles - shallower, faster moving sections of a stream - have been restored to attract white-clawed crayfish and brown trout.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2022
The conversation flows as we bob and weave among the riffles, and suddenly the river doubles in width as we round the end of a gravel bar and the McKenzie joins the Willamette.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2017
Joe took off his shoes, rolled up his pants, and waded quietly into the shallow riffles upstream from the pool.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
