Rife

"Rife" in a Sentence (20 examples)

The village is rife with dirty shops selling cheapjack souvenirs.

By the late 19th century, slavery was over, but the American South was still rife with discrimination and injustice for rural African American sharecroppers.

Alcoholism is rife in some parts of Kabylie.

Jewish prayer, religious texts, and commentary are rife with references to Jews as a nation.

Government corruption is rife in Ukraine.

Fascism is rife in this country.

These days, Russophobia is rife in the West.

The Hebrew Bible is rife with references to "the (other) nations of the world." In talking about non-Jews, Jews eventually shortened "member of another nation" to just "nation," or goy.

Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted.

Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal.

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The tumult of loud mirth was rife.

She was afterwards Lady Keith; and the mention of this name in the tale, as it were by mere accident, fixes the era of it in the reign of James the Fourth, at the very time that fairies, brownies, and witches, were at the rifest in Scotland.

The 'denominational considerations' mentioned below relate, of course, to anti-Semitic feeling, which was already rife in Vienna during the last years of the nineteenth century.

BRB engineers, it is known, have a warm regard for the Ventura range and speculation is rife that it may feature more widely in future BR dieselisation programmes.

Red deer are rife in these woodlands.

Seeds are rife in a watermelon.

Many post-colonial governments were rife with lawlessness and corruption.

They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.

What! I am rife a little yet.

The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke.

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