How to Use rive in a Sentence

rive

verb

• Girard’s world is riven by the frenzy and hatred of hollow men.
  — Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Girard’s world is riven by the frenzy and hatred of hollow men.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• This was two years ago, when Newcastle’s first team was riven by injury.
  — George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
• The Dodgers’ roster was loaded with talent but riven with strife.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• But the club has also been riven by bitter arguments over its core mission.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
• Barely risen from the ruins of a world war, France was now riven by the Cold War.
  — Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2019
• Bosnia was riven by war in the 1990s as the former Yugoslavia broke apart.
  — Lorne Cook, The Seattle Times, 5 Dec. 2018
• Russo thinks that’s a good thing and perhaps could help bind a country riven by partisanship.
  — David Montero, latimes.com, 15 June 2017
• Beijing has held up Macao, a gambling hub that has not been riven by protests, as an exemplary region.
  — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
• In a country as riven with economic inequality as this one, that can only be a good thing.
  — Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, 13 Dec. 2018
• Tamaulipas has long been riven by turf wars between rival drug cartels, and Sinaloa is home to the cartel of the same name.
  — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2018
• And there’s a reason the past decade or so has been a time in which friendships, families, and civic life have been riven by politics.
  — Karl Vick, TIME, 2 July 2024
• The package faces an uncertain fate in a House riven by an intractable battle over its next speaker.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• At a time when politics have riven the nation, an old-fashioned, wholesome shelter show is something many can agree on.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 7 June 2017
• The school was poorly funded, riven by gang violence, and deeply segregated by race and class.
  — Gioia Woods, Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
• Before the tournament had even started, the omens weren't promising for the host nation, which was riven with strife and unrest.
  — SI.com, 13 June 2018
• All these trends are global, whereas the world’s political structure is still riven by nation-states.
  — Yair Lapid, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2022
• Left in their wake are a failing economy and a weak state that has been hollowed out by corruption and is still riven by enmities.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• The program was extended for South Sudan, still riven by a civil war.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 4 May 2018
• The fascists were riven by factional infighting—but so were British Jews.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
• Abu Hamdan was born in 1985, when Lebanon was riven by violence.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Scout Island, on the north side of the park, is particularly riven through with odd trails and random stick deadfalls.
  — Outside, 17 Feb. 2026
• The House’s action was riven with partisanship.
  — Kevin R. Kosar, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
• Trump ends the year weak and unpopular, his coalition dispirited and riven by infighting.
  — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
• But that does not mean the country’s space corporation, Roscosmos, is not riven with corruption.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2019
• America, riven by race riots and the Vietnam War for years, had found a reason to come together.
  — oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2020
• The award drove a wedge between the O’Neals, whose family was already riven with dysfunction.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• In a country riven by coups and political conflict, tourism has succeeded in spite of the government, not because of it.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• In our age, riven with all manner of division, this old city didn’t strike me as dusty at all but uncannily of the moment and consequential.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 16 Oct. 2017
• The prime minister’s decision to suspend the judicial overhaul two months ago reduced some of the tensions that had rived the country.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 14 June 2023