Example sentences for: rite

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

  • Every year around this time, the Rite of Spring is performed in Washington.

  • In Japan, climbing Mount Fuji is a rite of the Shinto religion.

  • In the right place, a wrong spelling is often just the rite thing!

  • While Soutine--unlike Chagall, to whom he is sometimes compared--did not paint stereotypically Jewish subjects, he may have been alluding, with those dangling fowl, to a Yom Kippur rite in which a slaughtered chicken was whirled around a rabbi's head in a ritual of absolution.

  • In some communities (though not the rich Long Island ones where judges live), a prison term has become almost a rite of passage, something that young men do.


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