Wondering how to use Riffle in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as ruffle or ripple.
Riffle meaning
- A swift, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.
- A succession of small waves.
- A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed. Also one of the cleats, grooves or steps in such trough.
Synonyms of Riffle
Using Riffle
- The main meaning on this page is: A swift, shallow part of a stream causing broken water. | A succession of small waves. | A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed. Also one of the cleats, grooves or steps in such trough.
- Useful related words include: ruffle, ripple, shuffle, flick.
- In the example corpus, riffle often appears in combinations such as: riffle and, ak riffle, riffle shuffling.
Context around Riffle
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Riffle
- In this selection, "riffle" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ak47, boots, shifters, shuffling, run and forming stand out and add context to how "riffle" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a question riffle the pages and after a riffle forming what. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "riffle" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with riffle
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Freshman Ty Riffle and sophomore Josh Armstrong each had two RBI. (11 words)
At one riffle, several fish crowded side by side, facing upstream. (11 words)
Police officer with a riffle and a stern expression orders you to park. (13 words)
And then the third thing is just that material, like branches, sticks, whole tree trunks that fall in — they slow the stream down and create that riffle and pool habitat that's ideal for growing little fish into big fish. (40 words)
In addition, there will be a battlefield cross display, which is the arrangement of a deceased serviceman’s boots, riffle and helmet typically set up when that soldier lost their life on the battlefield. (34 words)
According to the police boss, the anti-kidnapping team also arrested one Ibe Chukwudi who allegedly robbed one pastor John Osejie in Ugbolu community near Asaba, and recovered AK47 riffle from the suspect. (33 words)
Example sentences (15)
Freshman Ty Riffle and sophomore Josh Armstrong each had two RBI.
He said one AK47 riffle, 48 rounds of live ammunition, four pump action guns, 18 rounds of live cartridges, two AK47 magazines and a face mask were recovered from them.
Shortly after his abduction, he appeared in a video on social media, begging for mercy as a man beat him and pointed a riffle at his face, apparently to scare him.
And then the third thing is just that material, like branches, sticks, whole tree trunks that fall in — they slow the stream down and create that riffle and pool habitat that's ideal for growing little fish into big fish.
At one riffle, several fish crowded side by side, facing upstream.
In addition, there will be a battlefield cross display, which is the arrangement of a deceased serviceman’s boots, riffle and helmet typically set up when that soldier lost their life on the battlefield.
In the Palisade’s multiple drive modes (Comfort, Eco, Sport, Snow, and Smart) the transmission behaves appropriately and steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters riffle through gears for climbs or descents.
According to the police boss, the anti-kidnapping team also arrested one Ibe Chukwudi who allegedly robbed one pastor John Osejie in Ugbolu community near Asaba, and recovered AK47 riffle from the suspect.
Police officer with a riffle and a stern expression orders you to park.
The weapons were hidden within the room, Francis said, and included a pellet gun, taser, crossbow and flintlock riffle.
In most streams, the current creates a riffle-run-pool pattern that repeats itself over and over.
Many also lift the cards up after a riffle, forming what is called a bridge which puts the cards back into place.
Riffle shuffling does, however, carry a risk of damaging cards from excessive bending.
Riffle shuffling is a method in which the deck is divided into two roughly equal-sized halves that are bent and then released, so that the cards interlace.
Some religions use a form of bibliomancy : they ask a question, riffle the pages of their holy book, and take as their answer the first passage their eyes light upon.
Common combinations with riffle
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- riffle and 4×
- ak riffle 2×
- riffle shuffling 2×