Examples of rile in a Sentence
Her comments riled the professor.
one sure way to rile me is to keep yelling for me
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April Fools' Day was a thing back then, too — and of course, other fanciful stories that might have gotten Chicagoans riled up have turned up since.
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Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Cate Charron Several Democrats running for office in the upcoming May primary elections had five minutes to run through their platform and rile the crowd atop a soapbox.
—Cate Charron, IndyStar, 30 Mar. 2026
Some of that disinformation is put out by the Iranian government, including fake firsthand accounts that attempt to rile up Americans who oppose the war, said Houman Hemmati, who supports the war and left Iran with his Persian Jewish family after the 1979 revolution.
—ABC News, 17 Mar. 2026
While two sources say Sarandos was riled to hear about this during a chance encounter with a Penguin executive, a Netflix insider says the Co-CEO never met anyone at the publishing house regarding the book.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
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Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Cate Charron Several Democrats running for office in the upcoming May primary elections had five minutes to run through their platform and rile the crowd atop a soapbox.
—Cate Charron, IndyStar, 30 Mar. 2026
Some of that disinformation is put out by the Iranian government, including fake firsthand accounts that attempt to rile up Americans who oppose the war, said Houman Hemmati, who supports the war and left Iran with his Persian Jewish family after the 1979 revolution.
—ABC News, 17 Mar. 2026
While two sources say Sarandos was riled to hear about this during a chance encounter with a Penguin executive, a Netflix insider says the Co-CEO never met anyone at the publishing house regarding the book.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
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“Rile.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rile. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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