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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Even in the 1980s, before the Soviet Union collapsed and before famine struck North Korea, the population was riven with hunger.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• By the 1830s, the concert was riven by a cold war between its liberal and conservative members.
  — Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• While Honduras and El Salvador have been riven by street gang violence, in Guatemala poverty and a lack of jobs is the main reason people flee their nation of 17 million.
  — Maria Verza, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• The rest went to a newly independent state of Moldova—which was then riven in a conflict by pro-Russian separatists.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024