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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Canada geese rode over the riffles in the channel.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
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
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 singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and virtuoso whistler Andrew Bird riffles through moods and genres on his holiday album: He’s wistful, sardonic, jaunty and pensive by turns.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2020
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
