Wondering how to use Rile in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as vex or roil.
Rile meaning
- To stir or move from a state of calm or order.
- To make angry.
Synonyms of Rile
Using Rile
- The main meaning on this page is: To stir or move from a state of calm or order. | To make angry.
- Useful related words include: vex, roil, displease, devil.
- In the example corpus, rile often appears in combinations such as: to rile, rile up, would rile.
Context around Rile
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rile
- In this selection, "rile" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, may, people, himself and authorities stand out and add context to how "rile" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include appears to rile authorities the and attempt to rile nick than. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rile" sits close to words such as aberrant, abloh and absurdities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rile
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It doesn’t take much to rile up Quebec’s anglos. (11 words)
He may rile the Abbotts up and never win anything at all. (12 words)
He then tried to rile up the non-existent crowd with claps. (12 words)
He would rile up all of his nieces and nephews and know just when to duck out to leave his siblings to handle the chaos, but never before turning into a jungle gym for all of them to play on. (40 words)
Warnock – who tried to rile Albion and Corberan with a jibe before the clash – also reserved praise for a fellow experienced boss Steve Bruce, the Spaniard's Baggies predecessor, who the former felt was unfortunate this term. (37 words)
The short-term goal must be winning elections, and this means not helping Trump rile up his base by activating their sense of “threat” and inflaming the grievances and anger that lead them to rally around him. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
As Morty tries to get Rick to rile himself back up, it's only the start of quite the unexpected outing for the series that follows in the tradition of previous seasons.
He would rile up all of his nieces and nephews and know just when to duck out to leave his siblings to handle the chaos, but never before turning into a jungle gym for all of them to play on.
The thing that appears to rile authorities the most on the sex toy issue is the sidelining of men, said Debra Mwase, a programs manager with Katswe Sistahood, a Zimbabwean group lobbying for women’s rights.
Warnock – who tried to rile Albion and Corberan with a jibe before the clash – also reserved praise for a fellow experienced boss Steve Bruce, the Spaniard's Baggies predecessor, who the former felt was unfortunate this term.
Brown appeared to be attempting to rile up Taylor's fans, known as 'Swifties', who are renowned for their fierce loyalty and protectiveness of the Anti-Hero hitmaker.
But tradwives seem to rile people up the when their ideology appears rooted in nothing but earnest ardor for a hyperdomestic, heteronormatively subservient, anti-girlboss lifestyle.
On the campaign trail, Trump strategically coined a simple question to rile the electorate into action.
The two AEW stars have confronted each other a few times since his debut, but last week Ospreay made a point to rile up Ricochet about getting his wins up for a Title shot.
He may rile the Abbotts up and never win anything at all.
He then tried to rile up the non-existent crowd with claps.
Renée DiResta, the technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, said some conservative influencers use live videos to spread conspiracy theories and rile up supporters.
Russian trolls, Finkelstein said, are especially willing to demonize whichever Jewish figure is most likely to rile people.
This is just another way to rile up the president's shrinking base.
But fellow Islander's won't want to rile the boxer up.
He’ll rile restrained Ryan up and suggest that things are about to get worse for the violent inmate.
It doesn’t take much to rile up Quebec’s anglos.
Of course, this seems more like an attempt to rile Nick than anything, but Phyllis probably wouldn’t mind if he took her up on it.
The short-term goal must be winning elections, and this means not helping Trump rile up his base by activating their sense of “threat” and inflaming the grievances and anger that lead them to rally around him.
This was used as a major campaign theme to rile sentiments against the PPP Government’s perceived lack of vision and expertise in the security sector.
If the game plan was to rile up Godard devotees, Hazanavicius has stacked up some well-earned contempt (Godard himself called it a ‘stupid, stupid idea’ – and inadvertently provided the film with an advertising tagline).
Common combinations with rile
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to rile 16×
- rile up 11×
- would rile 3×
- rile the 3×
- rile people 2×