How to Use rider in a Sentence

rider

noun
  • Congress added a rider to the health insurance bill.
  • Watch out for bike riders while driving.
  • She added a rider to her life insurance policy that increased her coverage.
  • In Dauphin, where most of the bus riders are from, flags were flown at half-staff.
    Rob Gillies, ajc, 16 June 2023
  • As other panicked riders rush to the other end of the car, the video shifts away from the fight.
    Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • As a result, both the driver and rider were thrown off the ATV.
    Elainie Barraza, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The rider, who was wearing a helmet, died at the scene.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The mothership was so heavy that the back wheels hung down like a low rider.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Joseph Quintana, the 25-year-old rider, is at once the trigger and the target.
    Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Every rider will need to pay for the ride with a Clipper card.
    Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • When the video begins, the moose is turning to the rider in front, who Bigelow refers to as his brother.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The star has been an avid motorbike rider since a young age.
    Jacob Linden, Redbook, 10 May 2023
  • Brown greeted many of the riders with a massive hug at the bottom.
    Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Caraxes has long proven loyal to his rider, and Vermithor would do the same.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 24 Oct. 2022
  • But nothing about low-rider bikes is about speed, and Vaughn is ok with that.
    Robert Scheer, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Ledger features six stories of bikeable ramps that take riders from the ground floor to the roof.
    Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 13 May 2023
  • Then the driverless chairs ride back solo to their hubs to wait for their next riders.
    Adlai Coleman, Miami Herald, 22 June 2024
  • If eight seconds is achieved, both bull and rider are scored.
    Anne M. Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Dec. 2023
  • If the fire-breathing beasts don’t kill her, one of her fellow riders just might.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Both are jump-line trails, meaning riders will be set up to get air on their bikes.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The rider’s hand with a glove and a foot in a racing boot extended out from under the sheet.
    TIME, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Police learned that the white sedan was driven by a Lyft driver, who was called to the scene to pick up a rider.
    cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The problem is that the bike’s seat can break during use, which can cause the rider to fall and suffer an injury.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 11 May 2023
  • Gotta think the riders will still be feeling it tomorrow, though.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The better story was about the gravel rider who turned down Paris-Roubaix.
    Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Team managers need to speak up and protect their riders.
    Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 9 May 2023
  • And because the spotlight portion stays on steadily, riders should have a have a safer, less strobe-like view of the road.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 13 Sep. 2024
  • After the 19th, riders will also be charged $1 per ride.
    Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2024
  • Prominent was one horse rearing, the rider keeping tight in his seat.
    Lydia Davis, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The motorcycle's rider, 66-year-old David Green of Rayland, Ohio, was also taken to a hospital for care.
    Grant Lancaster, arkansasonline.com, 23 Oct. 2024

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