A small wave on the surface of a liquid.
Look through a book or other written material.
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Examples for "leaf "
1 However, field evidence for such effect of conspecific leaf litter remains absent.
2 That red rose in the snow- Ihavethe leaf in my breviary.
3 The bambu set up is the mast; the leaf is the sail.
4 Late last year, Dotcom claimed he had turned over a new leaf .
5 Perhaps it's simply a change in leaf physiology linked to cooling temperatures.
1 Different this time: left thumb to right toe, right thumb to left.
2 Likewise, the left thumb shall be bound to the right great toe.
3 I think the rule of thumb is to wait for 10 years.
4 The rule of thumb is to board 30 minutes prior to departure.
5 Keep the thumb erect; raise the first finger of the left hand.
1 That'd be misleading, unnecessarily flip , and would result in missing body parts.
2 And if you really need to flip paper pages on your calendar?
3 Another indicator is sometimes startling flip - flops on labor law issues, experts said.
4 We need to flip those ratios to come back a second season.
5 This might not be the best time to flip that switch, however.
1 Love, the new Michael Haneke flick , will almost certainly be on display.
2 A flick of motion ahead and to the left caught his attention.
3 It was good enough that we almost enjoyed our test flick , Eragon.
4 The shopkeeper waved the question away with a flick of his hand.
5 Most of us flick absentmindedly between Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, for example.
1 I was startled; Olympos was usually impossible to shock or even ruffle .
2 He could see the dull ruffle of the water under the wind.
3 Such endeavours appeared to ruffle Belvedere, and certainly disrupted any game plan.
4 The second photograph shows a Galliano ruffle dress hanging on a stand.
5 His tempers were the ruffle of a passing breeze upon deep water.
1 The swooning riff on Kinder Blumenis a work of great, intricate beauty.
2 It was called New Rose and its riff has never been bettered.
3 The first thing that happened was the riff and off I went.
4 Nikki just let them riff and walked the rest of the apartment.
5 Brand-name footballers riff that gets desperate very quickly indeed: a top ten.
Stir up (water) so as to form ripples.
1 A little riffle as of waiting fluttered through the grasses and leaves.
2 As I riffle though my wallet, I see Canada went for cosy.
3 She walked over to a bookshelf and began to riffle through journals.
4 One had come apart in our first brush with a little riffle .
5 Even thus we only just made the riffle in more than one case.
6 We took my remuda, the spades and axes, and started for the riffle .
7 He went through another riffle , his big tail sticking out of the water.
8 He tugged the pack out now, and started to riffle through the designs.
9 I hope so, anyway, and I'll try my best to make the riffle .
10 What magic word? A swift riffle through his recollections of north myth exhumed nothing.
11 He began to riffle the leaves of the book, restively.
12 I turned back to the telephone book and began to riffle rapidly through it.
13 At the bottom of each ledge is a riffle to arrest the particles of gold.
14 You riffle through the knapsack, finally locating the notepad.
15 And so they have made the riffle at last?
16 I seen them swim the riffle last fall, bad water an' mush-ice runnin'-ona dare.
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