rifled

past tense of rifle

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rifled Curtis was grabbing Hernandez, while Strickland rifled off multiple punches. James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025 The pair combined again shortly after the hour-mark, with City’s new signings teeing up Haaland by cutting the ball back across the box, before the Norwegian rifled the ball past Sa. Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025 Xander Bogaerts tried the same to lead off the second inning; Smith rifled a throw to second baseman Miguel Rojas to mark the Padres’ third out on the bases in a span of just five hitters. Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rifled
Verb
  • Staffers frantically searched for updates on his condition.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker and activist Basel Adra said soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) searched his house in the occupied West Bank after a group of Israeli settlers attacked him, his family members and a foreign activist on Saturday.
    Max Saltman, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Claude scanned thousands of systems and identified weak points.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Is this event also a way to make World and the Orb feel more approachable and less intimidating to the public, especially those skeptical of getting their eyes scanned?
    Tanya Benedicto Klich, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement In some respects, Patagonia has hardly changed since Chouinard founded the company.
    David Gelles, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • With no clear winner yet, the European Industrial Alliance on Small Modular Reactors, a public-private platform founded by the European Commission in 2024, has been edging its bets.
    Anna Heim, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Health spoke to skin and food experts and combed through the research to see what science actually says about caffeine’s impact on aging, both inside and out.
    Laura Schober, Health, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Teams of searchers combed the shoreline on foot and in inflatable boats.
    Todd Symons, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Rifled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rifled. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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