Example Sentences

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Burned trees topple into streams, creating pools and riffles for feeding and spawning.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2022

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

The theater troupe riffles through clothing racks from other Strauss productions for their costumes.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2022

Home Creek riffles through the canyon and underfoot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2022

Ever since she set foot in the Catskills, she has talked about, and gone out of her way to find, cascades, cataracts, waterfalls, rills, riffles and niagaras.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George