Example sentences for: riddled

How can you use “riddled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Aside from an absurd premise that "most TV medical dramas would wrap up in 20 minutes" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ), the film is riddled with overwrought hospital scenes and numbing car chases--"clichés that mount like fallen bricks" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ).

  • For those seeking a well-written, up-to-date, etymological dictionary that sets forth its information in understandable English and is not riddled with the cryptic symbols and abbreviations found in the more ponderous, scholarly works, the Dictionary of Word Origins would be a good choice.

  • It's hard to think of another American film with this range of moods: satirical, sometimes hilarious, yet suffused with a sense of loss and riddled with the kind of violence that makes you recoil and lean forward simultaneously.

  • The book is riddled with such errors and misconceptions, apparently owing to the fact that no knowledgeable American editor was engaged to review.

  • Pols such as Newt Gingrich love Johnson's reactionary revisionism (he adores Nixon, despises Kennedy), but Johnson's books are riddled with errors (he says Edison invented the telephone), and the English think him a social-climbing loony.


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