What is "rife"

Usage examples of "rife".

What with our stopping for barely edible fast-food chicken-absolutely rife with monosodium glutamate, sodium nitrate, and God knows what other poisons-we arrived at the Sea and Sand Motel on the southern outskirts of Oceanside.

I could have had the hunters pole their floatblinds to a place of their own choosing, but the fen was riddled with quickmud cysts that would pull down both pole and poler, populated by dracula ticks the size of blood-filled balloons that liked to drop on moving objects from overhead branches, decorated with hanging ribbon snakes, which looked precisely like chalma fronds to the unwary, and rife with fighting gar that could bite through a finger.

North Runny firemen were full of themselves because with the help of Julius and Napoleon Rife they had recently bought a fire truck with a seventy-five-foot ladder.

As if sensing the change in her, Chase caught her by back of the head and tightened his hold, his embrace s demy rife with tension.

I complied, and inside I found a branchy wigwam rife with headache-inducing Mexican pot of the weakest caliber.

Some filthy plague spawned of the far south is rife in Forb, and a murrain is abroad among the livestock, and the very brave-trees are wilting!

The gate proved to be unlocked, and we went down the tunnel, into a damper section of tunnels, rife with the smell of mold, that was clearly not a part of the Pedway proper.

Speculation about redundancies and cuts was rife and the town had a jittery air, which had inevitably infected the radio station.

The trip from orbit to Sandia Spaceport was like all aerodynamic re-entries -- hot, noisy, and rife with acceleration surges.

Rife stepped out of his dark-blue Graf und Stift to go into Runnymede Bank and Trust on the square.

In allowing such shockingly unforeseen pleasure and new insight into familiar events, Nabokov makes almost unbearably delightful the prospect of an immortality in which such discoveries would be rife.

The ship had been rife with increasingly lurid speculations in avid undertones as we had sailed to Carif and I recalled Naldeth had been the source of some of the wilder tales of turbulent adventure and limitless wealth, far removed from the truths of life as a sword for hire, as Aiten had told it to me.

Huge clouds roiled around the shoulders and heads of the massive peaks, and a thick layer of altocumulus poured through valleys rife with blue-green glaciers.

Cornwell and Whyte rationalize the appearances of magic in their stories, and provide mundane sources for the stories that have become our Arthurian legends, Attanasio places his retelling in a context rife with actual sorcery, living gods, angels, demons, elves, dwarves, and an intricate mytho-cosmology that encompasses the history of creation.

Rumors were rife among the men that some secret political deal was being made with the federals by Governor Barnett, a deal that involved guns being pointed at them, rumors that were not far from the truth.