Sentence Examples

1. The trees provided temporary shelter from the wet, but the wind followed them in, howling as it rifled through their hair.
2. She rifled through a few more bags, finding rolls of coins.
3. Bigger still were the grumpy grey kobolds who rifled amongst the trees, snatching up flowers and gulping them down heartily.
4. The drawers of the bureau, it is said, had been rifled, although many articles of apparel still remained within them.
5. The driver reached into the mailbox, rifled through a few envelopes and a magazine, then took off down the street.
6. In short we went on board with the Frenchmen, who, after having ascertained all they wanted to know about us, rifled us of everything we had, as if they had been our bitterest enemies, and from Zoraida they took even the anklets she wore on her feet but the distress they caused her did not distress me so much as the fear I was in that from robbing her of her rich and precious jewels they would proceed to rob her of the most precious jewel that she valued more than all.
7. She rifled through it, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
8. The drawers of a bureau, which stood in one corner were open, and had been, apparently, rifled, although many articles still remained in them.
9. But as long shadows blanketed the mountains, I opened a side compartment and rifled through it.
10. His mind rifled through when that could have been.