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

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

Bell shuffles facial expressions the way a magician riffles cards and can switch directions three times in a single sentence.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2019

He riffles through the rest of the stuff, looking for what she requested, and finds it beneath a napkin with a circular stain on it.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone