Example sentences for: rife

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

  • Colorful names from the plant and animal kingdom are rife.

  • They fail on phenomena like long-distance dependencies, for example, the agreement between the cases of subjects and verbs, which are rife.

  • The merchant seaman, plantation owners, and businessmen who thronged the city streets also looked for the distraction of other pleasures, and prostitution was rife in the less salubrious parts of town.

  • Doug Briggs's nearly serious article [XXII,4] about the bowdlerizing of recent editions of Webster's reminds me that the same censorship is rife in the United Kingdom.

  • Despite the vindication offered by Stockholm, the prion hypothesis is still rife with loopholes.


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