RITE in a Sentence

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33 example sentences for RITE, such as:

1. all tongues till the holy rite was over.
2. This festival descends from a Chinese rite.
3. The reading out of a roll call of the dead has become an annual rite.
4. These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village.
5. They have their charms, and magic arts, and rites in exorcism and other things.

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 Meanings and Examples of RITE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rite
 n.  established ceremony prescribed by a religion
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  all tongues till the holy rite was over.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
2  I should like something else: a little addition to the rite.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  Carol's family were self-sufficient in their inventive life, with Christmas a rite full of surprises and tenderness, and "dressing-up parties" spontaneous and joyously absurd.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  She was the more absurd to herself in that, after the rite of dining alone, she could go out to the kitchen, lean against the sink, and talk to them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Princess Shtcherbatskaya wished, above everything, to present her daughter to this German princess, and the day after their arrival she duly performed this rite.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 30
6  Before the doors and in the lighted halls groups were gathered arrayed as for some rite.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  It seemed to be a sort of rite with him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
8  At the same time, the visible rite of baptism appealed strongly to their mystic temperament.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
9  Her husband was Sychaeus, wealthiest in lands of the Phoenicians, and loved of her with ill-fated passion; to whom with virgin rites her father had given her maidenhood in wedlock.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
10  And now the dreadful day was at hand; the rites were being ordered for me, the salted corn, and the chaplets to wreathe my temples.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
11  Hence came our Lady, haunter of Cybele, the Corybantic cymbals and the grove of Ida; hence the rites of inviolate secrecy, and the lions yoked under the chariot of their mistress.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
12  Yet Anna deems not her sister veils death behind these strange rites, and grasps not her wild purpose, nor fears aught deeper than at Sychaeus' death.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
13  And therewithal the Teucrians on the beach wept Misenus, and bore the last rites to the thankless ashes.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
14  But when the last rites are duly paid, and the mound smoothed over the grave, good Aeneas, now the high seas are hushed, bears on under sail and leaves his haven.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
15  Thence all at once, the sacred rites accomplished, retrace their way to the city.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
Example Sentence:
1  The reading out of a roll call of the dead has become an annual rite.
2  This festival descends from a Chinese rite.
3  They have their charms, and magic arts, and rites in exorcism and other things.
4  These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village.