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 attack is the latest to show that bridges are often rife with problems.
  — Olga Kharif, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 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
• This takes her to the city’s slum areas, where gang violence is rife.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 1 Dec. 2021
• The Internet is rife with sites extolling both sides of the debate.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021
• 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
• In the 1860s, disease was an urgent fear, and rife in New York’s tenements.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• 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 language and imagery of football, here and across the sport, are rife with everything except the pleasure of the game.
  — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
• The Portland area is rife with beautiful paved trails for bikes, strollers and people on foot.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
• Then came more setbacks in a nascent career already rife with them.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2022
• Nature, red in tooth and claw, is rife with organisms that eat their neighbors to get ahead.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
• Social media is rife with memes, GIFs and posts taking potshots at the white stuff.
  — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Then there is James Wiseman, whose rehab from knee surgery has been rife with setbacks.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Feb. 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
• The two-hour set, for the boy band’s Permission to Dance On Stage tour, was rife with confetti, smoke, pyrotechnics and — of course — the smoothest of dance moves.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 28 Nov. 2021
• Now that Hamas no longer polices the territory, crime is rife.
  — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 30 July 2024
• Today, our editorial board brings you five in the Arizona Legislature — a place that certainly is rife for change.
  — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024