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Example Sentences

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Though she did not hang out with the bohemians and intellectuals of the rive gauche, there was nevertheless something about her persona that chimed with the romantic existentialism of the time.

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2018

You never put your foot in the same rive twice.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2017

“Per le spiagge, per le rive di Trieste,” he began, singing the opening lines of “The Bells of Saint Giusto,” a patriotic World War I paean to Italy’s victory against—and Trieste’s independence from—Austria-Hungary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2015

As the boy talks he reveals the South's new reconstruction: carpetbaggers who ar rive by jet from the Middle East to buy whole islands, the latest styles in scalawags and gentrification.

From Time Magazine Archive

In what connection is rive used, and in what sense?

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin