How to Use be rid of in a Sentence

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• The desire to be rid of the virus is strong as fatigue has set in.
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2021
• The notion that we may be rid of them someday might be another.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2020
• And as yesteryear’s hunters walk their last trails, more widows and kids want to be rid of the old guns.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 July 2024
• There's no doubt Ash was relieved to be rid of it and finally move on with her life.
  — William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025
• The voters couldn’t be rid of Wilson and Wilsonism fast enough.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
• We, the destroyers, will thus be rid of our own industrial waste.
  — The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
• The southerners, for their part, wish to be rid of the Arabs and Islamism once and for all.
  — Andrew Natsios, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2011
• Most fans will consider billions more, this time in the form of one final check, a price worth paying to be rid of them.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• The biggest change is Disney will at long last be rid of this cringe-inducing chapter of its past.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• Just about every team Ewing was on was happy to be rid of him eventually.
  — Mike Decaire, Twin Cities, 19 July 2024
• And while some people will delight in their natural spectacle, others will just want to be rid of them.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 11 May 2021
• Some of their core constituencies owe a lot of money for their degrees and would be delighted to be rid of the burden.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 22 Dec. 2021
• This is why these biases are so intractable, despite the conscious intentions many of us have to be rid of them.
  — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2026
• City officials were all too happy to be rid of the market as residences were offended by the crowds and the smells.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2022
• But there’s no polite, classy or defensible way to be rid of Julie altogether.
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
• The Dusseldorf patient is latest to be rid of HIV with no signs of return.
  — Dr. Kaviya Sathyakumar, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2023
• That desire to be rid of the expedition included supplying local guides to pass them through the quickest route.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 27 Feb. 2026
• The islanders had rid themselves of their colonial masters, but not by revolution; the colonial masters had wanted to be rid of them.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• Is Wilson the quarterback Broncos coach Sean Payton paid to be rid of?
  — Mike Defabo, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
• If all goes as expected, the town will be rid of the carcinogenic reference by December, the mayor said.
  — Marie Fazio New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
• But in the aftermaths of their expulsions from the Oval Office, their parties, even the public, couldn’t be rid of them fast enough.
  — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020
• According to Johnson-Smith, the deal was a lifeline for the couple, who just want to be rid of the drama of the property.
  — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
• The Everglades will likely never be rid of Burmese pythons, and the wildlife that once thrived there will likely never recover.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Mar. 2021
• Miss Manners thinks you would well be rid of someone so quick to criticize you and question your choices, irreversible or otherwise.
  — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
• But for all their passion to be rid of the incumbent, there was underlying skepticism that replacing him would make a huge difference.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• In 1995, the Cleveland Browns couldn’t wait to be rid of Belichick, who seemed distant and cerebral.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• We are being forced to ask ourselves whether the American wish to be free of history arose out of the desire to be rid of stories that are painful or difficult.
  — Aatish Taseer, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2021
• However, the Manas AI founders are apt to say that their process will not be overnight, nor will it be rid of significant hurdles.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 29 Sep. 2025
• His father, Herbert Brown, inherited the business and wanted above all to be rid of the statue’s shadow.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 4 July 2020
• The aspiration to be rid of a cabal that has waged war on Iranian women and destroyed the nation will never be extinguished.
  — Mariam Memarsadeghi, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025