How to Use rile in a Sentence

rile

verb

• Her comments riled the professor.
• The sight of it was enough to rile up Stranger Things fans.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 3 Sep. 2022
• Playing all of this up riles the fans and keeps the machine turning.
  — Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• Few things rile an online crowd like a mistake in The New York Times.
  — Asaf Shalev, sun-sentinel.com, 8 June 2021
• But Trump knows that talking point will rile up his base.
  — refinery29.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• On the road, fans in The Zoo were riled up by another coach willing to take shots at the Buffs.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• All that’s missing is a spark that will rile the people and elites and move them to take action.
  — Alexander Motyl, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2022
• Scott is known to rile up his crowds, which has lead to past legal troubles.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• In this case, the bait caused a stir in the sharks, similar to how catnip riles up felines.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
• Maybe, at the end of the day, this is nature’s most important job: to rile up our atoms and blast us full of life.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 8 July 2021
• Just before she was subbed out for good, Clark cupped her hand to her ear to rile up her fans once more.
  — Dave Campbell, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
• Be cautious of taking on too much while Mars riles up Jupiter.
  — USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
• The winds riled up hordes of bees and wasps, whose angry stings filled emergency rooms.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• The social media post is not the first to rile users after last week's school shooting.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2021
• Then, a white man in a blue T-shirt appeared to rile the crowd, according to video obtained by KOB4.
  — Katie Shepherd, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2020
• And for those on Team Moderna, the booster’s just a half dose—less likely to rile cells up.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2021
• The Bear is perhaps just shining a new lens on that truth—and riling some people up in the process, as good art tends to do.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 23 June 2023
• The findings do not mean that everyone should get riled up in order to achieve their goals.
  — Heather Lench, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2024
• Still, the sample size is far too small to get riled up about a 2-of-4 passing performance.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• Musk’s move has riled up some high-profile users and pleased some right-wing figures and Musk fans who thought the marks were unfair.
  — Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
• Yet your dark humor really riled up the religious right in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
  — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Olivia’s Hillary-bashing is clearly meant to rile up her high-achieving mom.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 1 July 2021
• But challenging the use of those words will equally rile others.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Every now and then a rumor can really rile up a fan base.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2024
• His fashion shows were events that people fought to get into, and the crowds who got in would be riled up into a near frenzy.
  — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Coi made sure no one left her set on Friday with doubts about her ability to rile people up.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2022
• Don't overthink it while the Gemini moon riles up Saturn.
  — USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• So, there was that aspect of there being all of these men in town, all riled up, military, but there was a little bit to be scared about.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• Tax day is in the rear view mirror, but the Internal Revenue Service might be about to rile some people up again once more.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 15 May 2023
• The myth then becomes a tool others can use, whether to suppress the voting power of one group, or rile up another.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024