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- verb Present participle of
rill .
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Examples
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He found a long stick and began pushing the divots down the side of the levee, the clods of dirt rilling into the water.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He didn't understand how cleaning the cistern out and rilling it in with clean dirt would lead him to the information he sought, but he had no doubt that this was the price the Wild Magic wanted him to pay.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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He found a long stick and began pushing the divots down the side of the levee, the clods of dirt rilling into the water.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He found a long stick and began pushing the divots down the side of the levee, the clods of dirt rilling into the water.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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The water grew deeper and more swift, and it became gradually clear that there was a fallen tree trunk straining above us at the sand-bank; it stirred and pushed, the water rilling around it, and we stood back, silent now, waiting, while the water pushed above and ate away below.
Archive 2008-05-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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He found a long stick and began pushing the divots down the side of the levee, the clods of dirt rilling into the water.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Probe National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore D rilling, a bipartisan team created by executive order of the president.
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Probe National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore D rilling, a bipartisan team created by executive order of the president.
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The federal judge who struck down the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater d rilling sold stock in Exxon Mobil Corp. on the same day he issued his ruling, according to documents released Friday.
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The water grew deeper and more swift, and it became gradually clear that there was a fallen tree trunk straining above us at the sand-bank; it stirred and pushed, the water rilling around it, and we stood back, silent now, waiting, while the water pushed above and ate away below.
A Line Drawn in the Sand Heather McDougal 2008
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