How to Use rifle through in a Sentence

rifle through

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• Normal, who slept with one eye open, watching Love rifle through my room.
  — Shelley Puhak, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
• The 20 or so of us move chairs, tear up cushions, rifle through her sprawl of belongings on the ground.
  — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2025
• The holster grants easy access to them, so there’s no need to rifle through a full backpack to find them in the case of an emergency.
  — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• Sometimes, her mother told her, gang members stop traffic to rifle through peoples’ phone messages.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• The victim then goes still, and the suspect uses the man’s belt loops to flip the unconscious body over to rifle through his front and back pants pockets.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 25 July 2021
• Kantor proceeded to rifle through the fridge, sniffing jars of pickles, chili sauce and garlic—nothing.
  — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2020
• Authorities said a man stuck the barrel of a rifle through the fence at the edge of the golf course while the former president was golfing.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
• Police say Abell stuck the rifle through the passenger side window of the man’s car and began threatening him.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2020
• Cruz, who was expelled from the school the prior year, had shoved his rifle through a glass window on the internal door to spray the first-floor classroom with bullets.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 20 July 2022
• The chief said that two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed while sitting in the pews when a gunman fired a rifle through the windows from outside.
  — Nicole Acosta, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• The novels rifle through the history of thought and culture, tracing the paths existential unknowns have carved.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
• Videos taken by Ratchadawan show the elephant extending its trunk to rifle through cupboards and drawers, knocking over dishes.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 June 2021
• There are few jewelry boxes that would be more interesting to rifle through than Princess Margaret's.
  — Olivia Hosken, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2021
• Even though the team was about to get hit with a massive discovery dump, for Olympia, Billy, Sarah and Shae to rifle through.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 13 Mar. 2025
• Due to privacy concerns, the team couldn’t rifle through individual records, and relied on an algorithm to do the job instead.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2012
• One needs courage and more than a little trust to let an outsider come into her home to rifle through personal belongings with the goal of streamlining the homestead for its greater good.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• To look back at his movies — many of them more amiable than side-splitting — is to rifle through an assortment of hits and misses, a catalog of comic imperfection.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• The car appeared to back-up as another officer — Dinesh Jagar — fired three times with his rifle through the car’s windshield.
  — Michael Williams, SFChronicle.com, 19 Dec. 2020
• The Oregonian reported that some in the crowd tried to hold the assailants back during the attack, while others began to rifle through the man’s truck.
  — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2020
• An unconscious man sprawled face-down on the sidewalk at the corner of Jones and Ellis streets while another man kneeled down to rifle through his pockets.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 6 June 2020
• That's why our team of gear-savvy editors decided to rifle through the vast stores of new(ish) outdoor cooking options to find the five best for all your summer cookouts—and well beyond.
  — Paul Kita, menshealth.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• Armed Taliban intelligence and security agents show up unannounced at people’s homes to rifle through them, and search their phones at checkpoints across the city.
  — David Zucchino The New York Times, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• Video from a private vehicle showed the gunman carrying a rifle through a parking lot back toward Buford’s moments before opening fire again.
  — Katey Psencik, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
• Looting trucks and warehouses at gunpoint, the gangs often rifle through and discard humanitarian aid in search of cigarettes.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
• ChatGPT delivered simple answers in an accessible way and didn’t ask users to rifle through blue links.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
• As three officers in an unmarked pickup pulled into the lot, an officer in the backseat fired a rifle through the windshield and struck Monterrosa, 22, in the head.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2020
• There are no surprises here as these two sly wastrels repair their relationship, and in a running time of just 84 minutes, there’s hardly time to rifle through their deeper, darker baggage.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Jan. 2023
• The marketing company also developed a new packaging strategy to allow customers to grab-and-go rather than rifle through a pile of produce during the pandemic.
  — Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2020
• Yet the private company got total authority to rifle through the actual ballots and 400 voting machines from the election.
  — Star Tribune, 12 May 2021
• Authorities said Routh, who had a GoPro camera and two backpacks, shoved the muzzle of his rifle through a chain-link fence and may have been aiming at the president when agents fired at him.
  — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2024