Example sentences for: rite

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

  • Annual celebrations to Demeter took place in Athens each September, with a public festival and a secret religious rite that transformed chosen followers into initiates of the secrets.

  • We hear a lot of musical quotations--from Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to Leonard Bernstein's Candide to Bob Dylan and Duke Ellington--that bounce around a theme from the "Ricercare" of Bach's Musical Offering . Images that would work well on album covers fly by on big screens --the moon, a baby, the great red spot of Jupiter.

  • When an author writes what as wot, no indication of pronunciation is being given; the same is true for a number of other words (woz, skool, gon, sez, sed, 'our, rite).

  • Climbing Rainier is a rite of passage for some Northwesterners, an obsession for others.

  • homophones: creak/creek; plain/ plane, bow/bough, tear/tare, tear/tier, roe/row, allowed/aloud , etc.; triplets: bawd/bored/board, sword/sawed/soared, cite/sight/sight ; quadruplets: write/right/rite/wright, or/oar/awe/ore --a quintuplet if you allow Aw as in US expression Aw gee!


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