rifled

past tense of rifle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rifled
Verb
  • After recapturing Jerusalem’s Holy Temple, which had been converted into a place of idol worship, the website says, the Maccabees searched for pure oil with which to light the Temple menorah.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The class of 2024 eagerly searched for jobs in Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte and Dallas — cities that aren’t as large or expensive as New York and San Francisco.
    Christine Y. Cruzvergara, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Alon-Lee Green, the founding co-director of Standing Together, a progressive grassroots movement, told CNN that young people aren’t at fault for the extremist attitudes that are dividing wider Israeli society.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
  • That policy was targeted last year in a letter sent to Disney’s top brass by America First Legal Foundation, a conservative group founded by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Diamant and Kafka combed the park for it to no avail.
    Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Even better, the researchers at GreenLight Biosciences combed through bioinformatic databases to find just the right gene to disrupt to avoid collateral damage to honeybees and other harmless species.
    Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Rifled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rifled. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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