rive - use in sentences

Object

  • society: Why, in a society riven by class division, do Northern Ireland's people identify.. .
  • country: And all this in a country riven by poverty and corruption.
  • world: But a secret report predicts a looming catastrophe - a world riven with water wars, famine and anarchy.
  • mississippi: The mississippi riven in the downtown walk away with also known for.
  • fencing: This includes cleft or riven fencing, and mortised fencing using sawn rails.

Preposition: with

  • contradiction: Capitalist society is, however, riven with innate contradictions.

Subject

  • fear: If we are to prevent the descent into a society riven by fear and conflict, we have to act now.
  • war: The former would become a lame duck Prime Minister; the latter would inherit a party riven by civil war.
  • dispute: There emerged a deeply uncertain Church, riven by internal disputes.
  • conflict: Riven by conflict that is now destructive, or which is simply foced underground, the noise at last begins to abate.
  • strife: We are here in the island of Ireland that has been riven by strife between British and Irish for centuries.
  • crack: Scramble up for 15 meters to reach a quartz wall, riven by two cracks.

Modifying Another Word

  • so: The soul of the authentic European, however indifferent he may be to his past, is not so riven.

Preposition: by

  • fear: If we are to prevent the descent into a society riven by fear and conflict, we have to act now.
  • war: The former would become a lame duck Prime Minister; the latter would inherit a party riven by civil war.
  • dispute: There emerged a deeply uncertain Church, riven by internal disputes.
  • conflict: Riven by conflict that is now destructive, or which is simply foced underground, the noise at last begins to abate.
  • strife: We are here in the island of Ireland that has been riven by strife between British and Irish for centuries.
  • crack: Scramble up for 15 meters to reach a quartz wall, riven by two cracks.

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