Example sentences for: rife

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

  • As with any large port, prostitution was rife from the earliest times, and although the Calvinist Protestants tried to stamp it out it has thrived to the present day.

  • A few gripes from the fringes: According to the Village Voice 's Richard Gehr, although beautiful to look at, the film is "numbingly formulaic" and rife with the usual Disney clichés: "absent parents, unthreatening yet princely hero, perky but ditzy heroine, swarthy villain, cute sidekicks, hugs, lessons, and a CD's worth of forgettable pop tunes."

  • Later they were often home to many large families, rife with overcrowding and unsanitary conditions.

  • The new album, which is rife with unabashed Fab Four nostalgia, draws warm praise.

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


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