How to Use rite in a Sentence

rite

noun
Definition of ritenext
Synonyms for ritenext
  • Incense is often burned in their religious rites.
  • Losing to the Habs in the first round became the Black-and-Gold franchise’s rite of spring in the mid-’80s.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The rites will be solemn, but the massacre was a gruesome mess.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • The lament of this ancient church rite helps us process our own fear and grief.
    — Daniel Darling, National Review, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The Crimson Tide and Tigers entered this rite of May two of the hotter teams in the league.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 24 May 2023
  • The two went to a Buddhist temple to get a monk's blessings, a rite meant to get rid of bad luck.
    — Sopheng Cheang, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
  • All of those deaths will require some sort of final rite.
    — Peter D. Kramer, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The rite, also known as the Eucharist, calls for Catholics to consume bread and wine that has been blessed by a priest.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 13 Nov. 2021
  • For Kim Hartlage, watching the Masters has long been a rite of spring.
    — Brian Costa, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2019
  • Nadal is a part of the Paris landscape now; his success at Roland Garros is a rite of spring.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • None of us can be sure now that the precious rite and process will ever be restored.
    — Roger Angell, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Or his cousin from Pueblo who always comes up to celebrate the rite of spring.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2020
  • In normal times, a scene like this is a rite of college football.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
  • At our seder, that rite was matched for decades with another one.
    — Molly Crabapple, The New York Review of Books, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The piece was created during that first rite of spring.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
  • Indeed, some see the prospect of a snow day and the joy of its realization as a rite of childhood.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The Parade of Homes is a rite of spring for Twin Citians who like to check out the latest in house features and fixtures.
    — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Founded in Hamtramck in 1913, the church belongs to the group of churches of the Byzantine rite.
    — Deasia Paige, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2018
  • The sound of engines roaring in the sky is a rite of summer for Brian Maitland.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2022
  • In May 1949, one of the Jesuit priests who performed the rites declared that the last one had been successful.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Questions remain about how the game was played, and how the gruesome rite that awaited some of its losers worked.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 15 June 2018
  • On a recent Tuesday evening, the familiar rites and sounds of Scrabble fill the room.
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The priest presides over the rite of the eucharist in which bread, called the host, and wine become consecrated, or holy.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2021
  • Not long ago, Miami Heat-Boston Celtics in the playoffs were a rite of spring.
    — Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
  • But now there’s an additional rite: Cringe at the price.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022
  • But in the last few months, the celebrations — a coming-of-age rite for Latina 15-year-olds — are back.
    — Daric L. Cottingham, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The rite ended with the high priest giving the royal cheek the hardest possible slap.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • In addition, priests may not celebrate an old rite Mass and the New Order one on the same day.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2021
  • It's believed the rite cleanses a soldier of war's taint and heads off postwar ailments.
    — Betty Reid, azcentral, 29 Aug. 2019
  • For some, the camps have become spaces where volunteers take on roles such as distributing donated food and holding teach-ins and religious rites.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2024

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