How to Use rife in a Sentence

rife

adjective
Definition of rifenext
Synonyms for rifenext
  • Speculation about who would be fired ran rife for weeks.
  • Saratoga Springs was rife with restaurant chips from the 1850s on.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2022
  • During the 1950s, the music business was rife with shady deals.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Experts say the bodycam footage is rife with red flags.
    — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The scene where Lestat turns Louis is a pulp masterpiece, set in a church and rife with blood and fire.
    — Time, 22 Sep. 2022
  • That speed came with a cost, as fraud experts said from the outset that the program would be rife with fraud.
    — Ben Wieder, oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The attack is the latest to show that bridges are often rife with problems.
    — Olga Kharif, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The past year has been rife with proclamations about what 2022 would bring, most of which haven’t amounted to much.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Dec. 2022
  • This takes her to the city’s slum areas, where gang violence is rife.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The Internet is rife with sites extolling both sides of the debate.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021
  • At the same time, suspicions are rife that Sall, who is due to step down in 2024, will try and extend his rule.
    — Katarina Hoije, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
  • Real or not, Martha’s Vineyard is known to be rife with A-listers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Poverty rates in the city have tripled, according to the United Nations, and crime is rife.
    — Cape Diamond, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The past year has been rife with evolving ideas about what future workplaces might look like.
    — Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The crisis of fast fashion, and how to solve it, is rife for debate and discussion.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
  • If your blood is rife with cancer cells, those cells can build up in the lymph nodes in your neck, under your arm, in your groin.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • In the 1860s, disease was an urgent fear, and rife in New York’s tenements.
    — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The history of sport is rife with sexism that has held back women.
    — Steve Magness, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Much like the best horror movies, horror books are rife with vampires, ghosts, and of course, zombies.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The language and imagery of football, here and across the sport, are rife with everything except the pleasure of the game.
    — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The Portland area is rife with beautiful paved trails for bikes, strollers and people on foot.
    — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Then came more setbacks in a nascent career already rife with them.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Once the capital of the state, Kingston, New York is a town rife with historic properties.
    — Annie Davidson, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Nature, red in tooth and claw, is rife with organisms that eat their neighbors to get ahead.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Social media is rife with memes, GIFs and posts taking potshots at the white stuff.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2021
  • New York was rife with crime, garbage, graffiti and crack cocaine.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Still, the ceremony was rife with its share of lighter moments.
    — oregonlive, 2 July 2021
  • The odyssey to get to their third album, Blue Rev (out now via Polyvinyl and Transgressive), was rife with setbacks and challenges.
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, SPIN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Anti-China sentiment is rife among Baloch separatist groups.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Malnutrition is rife among the young, and diseases like polio, hepatitis, and cholera are flourishing in the crowded and unsanitary conditions.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024

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