How to Use ridden in a Sentence

ridden

adjective

• For generations, the area was poor, run-down and crime-ridden.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
• There were no video cameras to capture them, thin, dazed and lice-ridden, stumbling in the surf.
  — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022
• The same carbon frame was ridden to victory in a stage of the Tour de France.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2019
• Could my stutter-step breathing and thick-ridden voice be imitated by a machine?
  — Adam Verner september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
• Less scrupulous sellers may dry mushrooms that couldn’t be sold fresh, so be on the lookout for ones that may have holes from being worm-ridden.
  — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2021
• The debris-ridden area spans at least half a square mile, officials said, adding debris was also found more than two miles away from the plant.
  — Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
• Baby Driver lives with an old and wheelchair-ridden black man who is also hearing- and speech-impaired.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 28 June 2017
• Fall behind the Dodgers too far, too quickly, and all that structural strengthening could feel crack-ridden and fragile.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2021
• As a source of cheap labor to build railroads, Asian immigrants came to be seen as threats to white jobs and scapegoated as dirty and disease-ridden.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 18 Mar. 2021
• After a car accident, Craig’s leg is amputated, leaving him bed-ridden and lonely at home with only his family and a neighbor boy for company.
  — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
• Once a troubled, angst-ridden teen, Beth and Rip’s son is now all grown up, navigating ranch life in Texas and a possible romantic connection.
  — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
• This means that my sons have slurped spaghetti in Rome and ridden camels in Egypt but have never known the juicy joy of a pan chicken dinner on Eglinton Avenue West.
  — Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
• The house with a connected guest cabin and barn would sit away from a magical but mosquito-ridden creek, and in view of the Colorado-grandeur Flatirons to one side and Rocky Mountains to the other.
  — Genevieve Walker, Architectural Digest, 11 July 2026
• Now in its 16th year, the DCC has grown to become the largest annual fundraiser in the NFL; tens of thousands have run, walked or ridden bikes in support of the mission.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
• Such was the intensity of course designer Uliano Vezzani’s course, which maximised the capacious grass arena’s subtle but hugely influential terrain to create challenges that would be invisible to the eye but readily apparent when ridden.
  — The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 31 May 2026
• Meanwhile, skepticism has grown across the nation, with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey using an expletive-ridden rant to discount the federal government's narrative.
  — Austin Turner, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
• There’s North Carolina financier Timothy Ratliff, played by Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs, with his ennui-ridden wife Victoria (Parker Posey) and three children played by Patrick Schwarzenegger (son of Arnie), Alessandro Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook.
  — James Medd, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2025