How to Use rig in a Sentence

rig

1 of 2 noun

• He drives a big rig.
• The couple built the rig in their garage over 10 months.
  — Emme Hall, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
• Deputies arrived and found the rig sticking out of the front of the building.
  — Fox News, 24 Feb. 2023
• The rest of the warehouse is given over to rigs where the bikes are tested.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• And don’t forget the Fusion camera, a state-of-the-art 3D rig.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• Foot by foot, the rig’s hammer slammed the pillar into the ground with the rhythmic beat of a metronome.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• The lake record is still a monster though, caught just a couple years ago on a wacky rig.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
• The colors are meant to reflect Boston Harbor, and the curves, the knots from boat rigs.
  — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
• This can cause damage to the rig and increase the risk of accidents.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
• In spite of this, the rig never showed any signs of distress due to the subpar weather.
  — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 28 May 2023
• Yanis’s boyfriend had parked his rig beside a small herd of goats.
  — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• This 625-pound rig is one of the best ways to do real deal, low-and-slow barbecue at home.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 15 May 2023
• This rig looks tasty to just about anything under the surface.
  — David A. Rose, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2024
• Next, add a 3-inch peg float to the fluorocarbon, then finish the rig with a size 10/0 circle hook.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2023
• Five drilling rigs were noisily at work, pounding their way to a depth of 850 feet.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• In the winter, the pass can become so shrouded in dense fog that big-rig trucks get stranded.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• The same rigs, though, produce nearly half of the UK’s energy.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
• In August Darke traveled to Israel to ride the custom rig.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2022
• My line went taut, and then the rig danced down the gunnel like a sewing machine needle toward the motor.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 10 June 2023
• The Santa Rita No. 1 rig sits on the edge of the Austin campus, near the football stadium.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• For deeper fish use a jigging spoon or drop-shot rig 40 to 60 feet deep along gravel points and humps.
  — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2023
• The storm also washed 3 feet of mud and rock onto State Highway 126, stranding a long line of cars and big-rig trucks.
  — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2023
• The high-tech rig even looks just like the defending champions’s race car.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2023
• The number of rigs drilling for crude dropped again this week, a sign that U.S. producers are pessimistic about prices.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 2 June 2023
• The rig also comes equipped with heated hand grips, a halogen light, and drift cutters.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2020
• The storm also washed 3 feet of mud and rock onto State Highway 126, stranding a long line cars and big-rig trucks.
  — Christopher Weber and Stefanie Dazio, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2023
• As for the ideal rig, start by sliding a ½- to 1-ounce egg sinker onto the braid followed by a plastic bead.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2023
• Financed with your own money and little or no sponsors, talk a bit about your bike choice for the rig.?
  — Joe Michaud, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
• Big-rig drivers peer over, surprised to see a pickup with the same driver's seat H-point.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 14 Jan. 2023
• The rig design has yet to be confirmed, but the yacht will be fitted with an in-boom furling system.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2024

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rig

2 of 2 verb

• Was the 2020 election 'rigged,' 'so rigged' and 'crooked'?
  — Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• But that’s all the folks in Colorado needed to claim the game was rigged.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 17 May 2023
• The game was rigged, the ending already set — or so many thought.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 9 June 2023
• The film claims the scheme was widespread enough to rig the election for Biden, a Democrat.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022
• But words alone won't be enough to rig the universe in your favor.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Jan. 2023
• This year, Aronson was rigged up to arrive on the stage from the bowels of the theater.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Apr. 2023
• The charges confirmed, in the eyes of his supporters, that the system is rigged against them.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
• The 2020 election was rigged — stolen from President Trump by Biden and the Democrats.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Mar. 2024
• Read How to prosper in a financial world that’s rigged against you.
  — Alex Wood, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• If this is a little too slow for your taste, rig a seedless worm like the Zoom Speed Worm with a 1/16th-ounce bullet weight at the nose.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024
• The rival parties said the vote was rigged, and called for throwing out the results and holding a new election.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 1 Mar. 2023
• She, too, coaches and works in the rigging department for Cirque du Soleil.
  — Alix Wall, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• That sounds a lot like Sankey-speak for further rigging the system to favor the league who employs him.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2023
• Like all hollow tube baits, this one dips and dives best when rigged on an internal lead head jig.
  — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Much has been said about the camera rigs the filmmakers developed with the Navy to fit inside the cockpit of today’s F/A-18, the plane most in the movie.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• Outside, the men are trying to rig a solar panel on top of a water truck to pump out water.
  — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
• Sue Legg, a member of the board for the Network for Public Education, agreed that the system is rigged.
  — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
• Twitter seems to be Musk’s favorite game and, since taking over, he’s been trying to rig it in his own favor.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2023
• For example, the walls and ceiling of a garage can be rigged for holding camping gear storage.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024
• The harsh truth, says Braziel, is that the game is rigged against anyone lacking the resources or expertise to fight their corner.
  — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
• This new offering from the venerable Pautzke’s can be rigged many ways, comes in many colors, and won’t die in your fridge.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
• In 2004, an attempt to rig an election was defeated by a mass movement.
  — Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
• But Friedman said there are a few reasons why organizers might want to rig it.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• There's still a company to run (and potentially sell) and an election to rig.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 11 Apr. 2023
• To prove a crime was committed, the government had to demonstrate that the executives agreed to rig bids or fix prices.
  — H. Claire Brown, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Michael Ferrara, another of Ms. Carroll’s lawyers, noted in the interview that the jurors’ handling of the case showed that the process was not rigged.
  — Kate Christobek, New York Times, 11 May 2023
• That is now believed by some to be connected to a cabal that allegedly rigged the 2020 election.
  — Ellen Friedrichs, Parents, 14 Oct. 2023
• Lend just a bit of light—without having to worry about rigging up wired lighting—with a charming set of bistro lights strung around your fire pit.
  — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 17 May 2023
• For Nuñez , her frustration mainly stems from a belief that the system is hopelessly rigged.
  — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024
• Not only is the system rigged, the distribution of need in this nation underscores the unfairness.
  — Susan Harley, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024