How to Use rite in a Sentence

rite

noun

• Incense is often burned in their religious rites.
• Losing to the Habs in the first round became the Black-and-Gold franchise’s rite of spring in the mid-’80s.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
• The rites will be solemn, but the massacre was a gruesome mess.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• The lament of this ancient church rite helps us process our own fear and grief.
  — Daniel Darling, National Review, 10 Apr. 2020
• The Crimson Tide and Tigers entered this rite of May two of the hotter teams in the league.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 24 May 2023
• The two went to a Buddhist temple to get a monk's blessings, a rite meant to get rid of bad luck.
  — Sopheng Cheang, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
• All of those deaths will require some sort of final rite.
  — Peter D. Kramer, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2020
• The summer job is considered a rite of passage for the.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• The rite, also known as the Eucharist, calls for Catholics to consume bread and wine that has been blessed by a priest.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 13 Nov. 2021
• For Kim Hartlage, watching the Masters has long been a rite of spring.
  — Brian Costa, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2019
• Nadal is a part of the Paris landscape now; his success at Roland Garros is a rite of spring.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 8 June 2018
• None of us can be sure now that the precious rite and process will ever be restored.
  — Roger Angell, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2020
• Or his cousin from Pueblo who always comes up to celebrate the rite of spring.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2020
• Sunday is the most important, and longest day, in the rites.
  — Text By Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
• In normal times, a scene like this is a rite of college football.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
• At our seder, that rite was matched for decades with another one.
  — Molly Crabapple, The New York Review of Books, 7 Apr. 2020
• The piece was created during that first rite of spring.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
• The cramps and the bloating aren't fun, but at the end of the day, periods are seen as a rite of passage for many people.
  — Sarah Brody, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2017
• Indeed, some see the prospect of a snow day and the joy of its realization as a rite of childhood.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
• The Parade of Homes is a rite of spring for Twin Citians who like to check out the latest in house features and fixtures.
  — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
• Founded in Hamtramck in 1913, the church belongs to the group of churches of the Byzantine rite.
  — Deasia Paige, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2018
• The sound of engines roaring in the sky is a rite of summer for Brian Maitland.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2022
• In May 1949, one of the Jesuit priests who performed the rites declared that the last one had been successful.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2024
• Questions remain about how the game was played, and how the gruesome rite that awaited some of its losers worked.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 15 June 2018
• Grim forecasts for the Preakness in Baltimore are a rite of spring.
  — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2018
• On a recent Tuesday evening, the familiar rites and sounds of Scrabble fill the room.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
• The priest presides over the rite of the eucharist in which bread, called the host, and wine become consecrated, or holy.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2021
• Not long ago, Miami Heat-Boston Celtics in the playoffs were a rite of spring.
  — Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
• This is an ancient rite, dating back to the mists of 2014, and rivalries have already grown amiably intense.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
• President Jimmy Carter will lie in state for a second day Wednesday after his remains arrived in Washington a day earlier as part of state funeral rites.
  — Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 14 Feb 2025