How to Use rife in a Sentence

rife

adjective

• Speculation about who would be fired ran rife for weeks.
• Saratoga Springs was rife with restaurant chips from the 1850s on.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2022
• During the 1950s, the music business was rife with shady deals.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• The scene where Lestat turns Louis is a pulp masterpiece, set in a church and rife with blood and fire.
  — Time, 22 Sep. 2022
• That speed came with a cost, as fraud experts said from the outset that the program would be rife with fraud.
  — Ben Wieder, oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2022
• The past year has been rife with proclamations about what 2022 would bring, most of which haven’t amounted to much.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Dec. 2022
• At the same time, suspicions are rife that Sall, who is due to step down in 2024, will try and extend his rule.
  — Katarina Hoije, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
• Poverty rates in the city have tripled, according to the United Nations, and crime is rife.
  — Cape Diamond, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• The past year has been rife with evolving ideas about what future workplaces might look like.
  — Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2023
• The crisis of fast fashion, and how to solve it, is rife for debate and discussion.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
• The history of sport is rife with sexism that has held back women.
  — Steve Magness, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2022
• Much like the best horror movies, horror books are rife with vampires, ghosts, and of course, zombies.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
• The Portland area is rife with beautiful paved trails for bikes, strollers and people on foot.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
• Nature, red in tooth and claw, is rife with organisms that eat their neighbors to get ahead.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
• New York was rife with crime, garbage, graffiti and crack cocaine.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• The odyssey to get to their third album, Blue Rev (out now via Polyvinyl and Transgressive), was rife with setbacks and challenges.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, SPIN, 7 Oct. 2022
• The process was too hard to navigate, many said, and was rife with rejection letters.
  — The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2022
• If things have marginally improved for women in film and music, ageism is still rife.
  — Olivia Marks, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2023
• But a look around the city reminds us why the turn into fall and march toward winter is rife with sporting drama: ▪ The Celtics.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
• Paranoia was rife down on South Street, and strangers like Mensch were viewed with suspicion.
  — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• While the lake is a top spot for fishing, the surrounding dry land is also rife with wildlife, with seven miles of trails to explore.
  — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• If history serves as a guide, the next two years could be rife with partisan gridlock.
  — Candy Woodall, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2022
• Talk of Western hypocrisy and double standards is rife in Doha.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• But many Republicans soured on the law after Trump claimed mail-in voting was rife with fraud.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2022
• The 2022 midterm elections were rife with anti-bail-reform rhetoric—including in deep-blue states.
  — Laura Arnold, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2023
• Yet gossip mills and social media are rife with newly svelte fans.
  — Paul Tullis, Town & Country, 11 Aug. 2022
• The market is also rife with scammers eager to take advantage of users.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 9 July 2022
• Doxing is rife, and attacks, arrests, and threats against their jobs are increasing.
  — Darren Loucaides, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
• Every choice to take time off or shorten a vacation or skip a purchase or change jobs is rife with guilt, shame, and pressure.
  — Beth Silvers, Fortune, 4 July 2022
• Although the relentless heat is likely to have contributed to the fires, rumors of arson were rife.
  — Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024