How to Use ridden in a Sentence

ridden

adjective

• For a decade, overgrown grass gave the field the look of a weed-ridden farmland.
  — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2022
• The cows then go for a swim in the already E. coli-ridden water.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• Just think of all the germ-ridden things people touch all day.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 8 Mar. 2020
• Some choose to get rid of it at already trash-ridden spots.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 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
• The worm-ridden areas lie at the end of this cascade of neglect.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2018
• But here's a pickle: what to do with the almost-dead, fly-ridden man in her wardrobe?
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• But she hasn’t been turned into the kind of angst-ridden teen common on TV these days.
  — Rob Lowman, Orange County Register, 12 May 2017
• There were no video cameras to capture them, thin, dazed and lice-ridden, stumbling in the surf.
  — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022
• The state’s map shows far more people are unserved than the FCC’s error-ridden map.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
• The idea of war-ridden areas was really hard to process.
  — Brittany Vincent, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2017
• The back and forth is illustrative of the angst-ridden debate going on across the state.
  — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2018
• For generations, the area was poor, run-down and crime-ridden.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
• Fratelli, switching surfaces, took the lead at the dirt crossover and rolled to hand-ridden 2¼-length win with Flavien Prat aboard.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2021
• To put your son or daughter in harm’s way is the last thing any parent wants on their already guilt-ridden head.
  — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 24 Jan. 2018
• And that anxiety-ridden place that he's been living in in his mind is just getting to be too much.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Thanks to a new study, researchers can add another microplastic-ridden thing to the list: the ocean breeze.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2020
• At the time, the sisters had been angered by the publisher’s typo-ridden job.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 25 May 2021
• Birmingham has a high crime rate and the new facility is in the middle of a crime-ridden area.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 7 Nov. 2022
• Memorial Day Weekend 2021 was a high point of our Covid-ridden year.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2021
• And, for the love of god, any app offering in the world instead of Apple’s problem-ridden Podcasts app.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Apr. 2022
• Take a break from depressing headlines and scandal-ridden newsfeeds in the week to come.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 9 June 2019
• Evan Turner was paid a whopping $70 million over four years, as was the injury-ridden Joakim Noah.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 27 June 2017
• He’s ridden his bike through the Lower 48 states in 10 days, so Total Muni should be nothing, right?
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
• And, in case of a dreaded polish chip, Chanel’s trio of sunny shades will transform chips and sand-ridden flecks in seconds.
  — Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 15 June 2018
• On the other side, the mass of the people led wretched lives, and short ones, worked to death in the cramped, disease-ridden, filthy new industrial cities.
  — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• Harper’s Gallop at 12-1 looks like a great value play/backup to the Flavien Prat-ridden favorite in this race.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
• Inside the gym the thin, dry air of Albuquerque's desert gave way to a thicker, stench-ridden variety, heavy with hard work.
  — William D'urso, latimes.com, 21 May 2018
• The site was once called Kidwell Flats, an insect-ridden tract on the Potomac River that had been reclaimed with mud dredged from the bottom.
  — Michael E. Ruane, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022
• Bud died from a heart attack the year before Claire took her own life—the novel is grief-ridden and lyrical, with meditations on childhood, violence, abandonment, and loss.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024