How to Use rite in a Sentence

rite

noun

• Incense is often burned in their religious rites.
• The Masters is golf's rite of spring.
  — ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
• The rites will be solemn, but the massacre was a gruesome mess.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• At our seder, that rite was matched for decades with another one.
  — Molly Crabapple, The New York Review of Books, 7 Apr. 2020
• Pond skims a rite of spring Spring skiing can be variable.
  — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 18 Mar. 2026
• In normal times, a scene like this is a rite of college football.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
• 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
• One union was sealed by Satanic rite, alongside a pit of corpses.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 27 May 2026
• Or his cousin from Pueblo who always comes up to celebrate the rite of spring.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2020
• 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
• Typically this rite of spring is more about the event than the actual game.
  — Catherine Bigelow, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
• 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
• These cultures are said to have used flutes made from bone in ceremonial rites.
  — Karla Gachet, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
• 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
• It's believed the rite cleanses a soldier of war's taint and heads off postwar ailments.
  — Betty Reid, azcentral, 29 Aug. 2019
• Other tools found in the gravesites appear to be brand new and were buried with the dead during funerary rites.
  — Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
• An annual rite of spring has been the Billy’s-learning-to-bunt story.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 May 2018
• Religious rites and ceremonies have no effect.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
• The rite ended with the high priest giving the royal cheek the hardest possible slap.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
• The cramps and the bloating aren't fun, but at the end of the day, periods are seen as a rite of passage for many people.
  — Sarah Brody, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2017
• Grim forecasts for the Preakness in Baltimore are a rite of spring.
  — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2018
• For Kim Hartlage, watching the Masters has long been a rite of spring.
  — Brian Costa, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2019
• Some cloak their traditions in the mystical rites of the Sufis.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Hop on your bike and join this annual rite marking the unofficial end of summer.
  — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• The sound of engines roaring in the sky is a rite of summer for Brian Maitland.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2022
• Incorporating more rites and practices into the script was not the only change from the webtoon.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• He was visited by a priest on Monday, May 4, who performed the last rites.
  — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026