Example Sentences
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Not all rifts go on to split continents completely.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
Azizi dismissed any impressions of rifts within the regime.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
And there were rifts as well as riffs: For a time Mr. Jagger and Mr. Richards stopped seeing eye to eye on what worked and what didn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
During part of their discussion, they explored how Rupert Murdoch pitted his children against each other and what those rifts reveal about the family dynamics driving Fox News.
From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026
The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked black peat, where water lay and sharp white stones, some as big as a pigeon’s, some as a rabbit’s skull, glimmered in the moonlight.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
