How to Use rive in a Sentence

rive

verb
  • Bosnia was riven by war in the 1990s as the former Yugoslavia broke apart.
    Lorne Cook, The Seattle Times, 5 Dec. 2018
  • Barely risen from the ruins of a world war, France was now riven by the Cold War.
    Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2019
  • Forty years later, the country was riven by the Civil War.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
  • The Dodgers’ roster was loaded with talent but riven with strife.
    Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Tamaulipas has long been riven by turf wars between rival drug cartels, and Sinaloa is home to the cartel of the same name.
    CBS News, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Girard’s world is riven by the frenzy and hatred of hollow men.
    Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Girard’s world is riven by the frenzy and hatred of hollow men.
    Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The president’s combative speech Tuesday to the U.N. laid out a stark, good-vs-evil view of a globe riven by chaos and turmoil.
    Darlene Superville, The Seattle Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Abu Hamdan was born in 1985, when Lebanon was riven by violence.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Before the tournament had even started, the omens weren't promising for the host nation, which was riven with strife and unrest.
    SI.com, 13 June 2018
  • The AfD, which won 13% of the vote and came a stunning third place behind the main center-right and center-left parties, has been riven with internal strife.
    Schams Elwazer and Hilary Clarke, CNN, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Bloom’s view of the body almost as a trap, a disguise to be ravaged and riven, the better to see through it, had plenty of antecedents in European art.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
  • Both were riven by rivalries as Trump cycled through top staff.
    Thomas Beaumont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Beijing has held up Macao, a gambling hub that has not been riven by protests, as an exemplary region.
    Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The program was extended for South Sudan, still riven by a civil war.
    Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 4 May 2018
  • The award drove a wedge between the O’Neals, whose family was already riven with dysfunction.
    Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • All eyes are on lower Manhattan as the NFL owners and players seek common ground on the issue that has riven the football world.
    Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The package faces an uncertain fate in a House riven by an intractable battle over its next speaker.
    Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • To be a mathematician in the decades that birthed Bourbaki was to struggle to find common ground in a world riven by war and conflict.
    Michael Barany, JSTOR Daily, 24 Mar. 2021
  • America, riven by race riots and the Vietnam War for years, had found a reason to come together.
    oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Russo thinks that’s a good thing and perhaps could help bind a country riven by partisanship.
    David Montero, latimes.com, 15 June 2017
  • The fascists were riven by factional infighting—but so were British Jews.
    The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The prime minister’s decision to suspend the judicial overhaul two months ago reduced some of the tensions that had rived the country.
    Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • At a time when politics have riven the nation, an old-fashioned, wholesome shelter show is something many can agree on.
    Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 7 June 2017
  • Democrats largely elided the divisions that had riven them leading up to Mrs. Pelosi’s election.
    Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
  • Left in their wake are a failing economy and a weak state that has been hollowed out by corruption and is still riven by enmities.
    The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • His team of advisers is riven with personal divisions, and the White House has not yet crafted a strategy for the midterms.
    New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • In a country as riven with economic inequality as this one, that can only be a good thing.
    Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, 13 Dec. 2018
  • Many homes in Syria, which has been riven by civil war since 2011, have subterranean tunnels or shelters from the fighting.
    Zeke Miller, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2019
  • That dynamic — along with the overheated water of the Atlantic — created for the sailors a patch of ocean riven by errant low-pressure fronts and violent storms like the one Jack was fighting three days later.
    Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024

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