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 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 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
• The piece was created during that first rite of spring.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
• The sound of engines roaring in the sky is a rite of summer for Brian Maitland.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2022
• 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
• But now there’s an additional rite: Cringe at the price.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022
• But in the last few months, the celebrations — a coming-of-age rite for Latina 15-year-olds — are back.
  — Daric L. Cottingham, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
• In addition, priests may not celebrate an old rite Mass and the New Order one on the same day.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2021
• That rite of spring for Madison Avenue is now poised to double as a post-merger bash for Big Media’s new belle of the ball.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 5 Apr. 2022
• Maybe that means that Chevron is already as good as dead and Loper Bright will simply amount to its final rites.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 May 2023
• Mainstream rabbis rejected the far-right’s calls to revive the rite.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2023
• The Wiffle ball tournament is a rite of summer in Vermont.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• For him, the sport is organized around the solitary rite of catching a wriggling trout and tossing the fish back into the water.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 June 2023
• Some prominent church leaders have long wanted to renew the power of the rite among the faithful.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 22 June 2021
• Packing feels like both a mindless reprieve from work and a rite of self-reflection.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• Rafael Nadal competing in — and usually winning — the French Open has become one of the major rites of spring for close to two decades.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• For 50 years, our culture and media have treated this flawed decision as right and rite.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 5 May 2022
• Visiting the big clubs in Berlin—Berghain, Tresor, Griessmuehle—was, for those who could afford it, still a rite of techno tourism.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 24 June 2021
• The central rite of American democracy — casting a vote — no longer seems to work.
  — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
• The monarch’s first funerary rites took place in the historic Scottish capital, and thousands lined the rainy route of her cortege to pay respects.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• Fishing for hickory and white —or American — shad has been a rite of spring for centuries in the mid-Atlantic.
  — Bill May, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2022
• This was no lesser a sacrifice, for the cucumber was understood to be the ox, to become it within the context of the rite.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2022
• Punching holes in prospects is a rite of spring, and Stroud certainly had his detractors heading into the draft.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• Self-care becomes a rite of defiance in the face of oppression and injustice.
  — Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• President Joe Biden detailed an encounter with the priest that administered the last rites to his late son Beau Biden.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 17 Apr. 2023
• The magazine’s release became a rite of summer for Texas high school football fans.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024