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How to use riffles in a sentence

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In natural streams coho salmon and steelhead trout fry tend to occupy pools and riffles, respectively.
In the Pacific Northwest, several species of Pacific salmon grow in the riffles of cold-flowing rivers far from the sea.
Emerald-headed mallards bob alongside kayakers in the river's riffles of whitewater.
I peered across the chops and riffles and saw the dark backs and tails of a seething school of redfish.
She finishes rehearsal, returns to her rented atelier in Chelsea and riffles through her collection of music.
The bright sun shines in a cloudless sky, and a light breeze riffles the clear waters of an open pool in the sea ice of McMurdo Sound.
The mild rapids turn to riffles and become fewer and fewer from here to the takeout.
Surviving juveniles disperse to the riffles and runs of the river to live on insect larvae and small crustaceans.
Both salmon and trout grow faster in deep, low-velocity pools than in shallow, high-velocity riffles.
Sampling locations were selected based on suitable habitat consisting of gravel and cobble substrates associated with riffles and runs and, to a large extent, accessibility.
We clambered over mossy boulders beneath a canopy of big-leaf maple, bay, and fir, and covered six-tenths of a mile of sparkling riffles and cascades.
We look hopefully at markings on our map like Pablo's Rapid and Dead Man Rapid, but they prove to be little more than riffles and a slight acceleration in the current.
Chub are stream fish, and like other soft-rayed species, are common in more turbulent riffles and races to which they are displaced by predation risk.
Biodiversity of macroinvertebrates in open canopy riffles in the Little Harpeth River, Nashville, Tennessee.
The dust was washed in a small stream of water and the heavy gold dust and gold nuggets collected in riffles.
Riffles are areas of high substrate heterogeneity, and corresponding high areas of macroinvertebrate diversity in streams.
Examples from Classical Literature
On June 15 in Otter Creek young darters were abundant in streamside detritus and in clear, shallow, rubble riffles.
It is to be waded in the riffles, so that he can cross from one shore to the other as the mood suits him.
You-all laugh at quicksilver in the riffles and think flour gold was manufactured by God Almighty for the express purpose of fooling suckers and chechaquos.
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