Sentence examples for district riven from inspiring English sources

His tiny flat is on the first floor of a deck-access block, in a district riven by urban motorways and pockmarked with decaying council estates.

District Six produced two fine novelists in Richard Rive and Alex la Guma, and many jazz musicians, including Abdullah Ibrahim, known as Dollar Brand until his conversion to Islam.

The district encompasses several hundred square miles, though how many exactly is hard to say, as the land is so rent and riven.

Riven with history.

Iraqi politics are deeply riven.

The SNP was riven by infighting.

Riven by shock, he confessed.

The Labour party is riven.

The religious realm was just as riven.

But the company was riven by feuds.

But it has been riven by factions.