How to Use rife in a Sentence

rife

adjective
  • Speculation about who would be fired ran rife for weeks.
  • The pregame notes for this one aren’t rife with red cross notes, but one injury stands out.
    — Skip Snow, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Trump for months had told the country that mail ballots were rife with fraud.
    — oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2021
  • At low tide, the pools on Olympic beaches are rife with starfish and crabs.
    — Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2026
  • Speculation has been rife over who will be cast in the film.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Then came more setbacks in a nascent career already rife with them.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2022
  • This takes her to the city’s slum areas, where gang violence is rife.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Indeed, one slice was rife with sauce and cheese, but oddly over-salted.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The past year has been rife with evolving ideas about what future workplaces might look like.
    — Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The history of sport is rife with sexism that has held back women.
    — Steve Magness, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The attack is the latest to show that bridges are often rife with problems.
    — Olga Kharif, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Antisemitism is rife right across the UK.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • That speed came with a cost, as fraud experts said from the outset that the program would be rife with fraud.
    — Ben Wieder, oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The buyout market has been rife with bigs, but the Sixers have struck out so far.
    — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
  • New York was rife with crime, garbage, graffiti and crack cocaine.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Nature, red in tooth and claw, is rife with organisms that eat their neighbors to get ahead.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The Spurs record books aren’t exactly rife with triple-doubles.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But analysts say the pivot is rife with problems.
    — Nithin Coca, semafor.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • If your blood is rife with cancer cells, those cells can build up in the lymph nodes in your neck, under your arm, in your groin.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Much like the best horror movies, horror books are rife with vampires, ghosts, and of course, zombies.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The crisis of fast fashion, and how to solve it, is rife for debate and discussion.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Rumours are rife in the village and the authorities are no help.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The Internet is rife with sites extolling both sides of the debate.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The page is rife with Chanel bags and Fendi monogrammed jackets.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The last days of the election have been rife with videos deceivingly made or ripped out of context.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
  • European models are rife with options, and the sky’s the limit on cost.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Saratoga Springs was rife with restaurant chips from the 1850s on.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The house, which has doubled as her news studio for the last year, is rife with quirky flea market finds and fun pops of color.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 16 Mar. 2021
  • This interregnum could be rife with abuses.
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 24 June 2026
  • Democrats also said the push for these changes is based on the idea that the 2020 election was rife with fraud.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2021

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