How to Use rigging in a Sentence

rigging

noun

• They checked the rigging before they set sail.
• To taste the salty air and hear the wind chiming his sail rigging.
  — Lane Degregory, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
• So was the rope that was still attached to the rigging around his waist.
  — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• Loosen your rigging lines and bring the sails and masts down alongside the hull.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• Putting up the rigging was a lot of work, and there wasn’t always enough room for it on the ground.
  — David Hill, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• But the upper parts of the hull, along with all the rigging, were plowed away, along with the mound itself.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 28 May 2020
• And that the rooftop would be closed to accommodate the rigging, so the bee colony would have to be moved.
  — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
• By the time Chutaro learned of the boat, its life jackets, lines, and rigging had been taken.
  — Andrew Lewis, Outside Online, 14 Jan. 2022
• The first is that some of our rigging might not be along the lines of what a client normally ties.
  — Tom Keer, Field & Stream, 16 June 2020
• Matthew Mylrea would step in and do some line rigging and falls.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
• The scandal led to billions of dollars in fines on the banks involved in the rigging.
  — Simon Constable, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2018
• The race boat didn’t need assistance once the rigging was cut away, Dieball said.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2024
• Chainplates are metal supports that poke through the deck for the rigging wires to clip to.
  — Ian McNanie, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2018
• Kids can also climb a ship’s rigging, steer the wheel and fire air cannons.
  — Web Behrens, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2019
• At the port of Málaga the night sky was bled out pale and the anchor lines and the rigging of the off-season yachts made a nervous chatter in the breeze.
  — Kevin Barry, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Step 3: Insert one end of your trick worm into the wacky rigging tool and then roll an o-ring onto the worm.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 16 May 2024
• People were just setting up the rigging and bringing in the flooring.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018
• But with the spread of mass democracies across Latin America in the 1980s, such clear rigging of elections seemed a thing of the past.
  — The Economist, 30 July 2020
• The sizes and colors will vary, but the rigging and presentations remain the same.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• What could be used or not used to simplify this rigging? .
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
• The wreck was so well-preserved in the frigid waters of the Great Lakes that its three masts were still standing and its rigging still attached.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
• Instead, each appears to be in motion, backs bent and arms reaching out to grasp the rigging.
  — Barbara Henry, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 June 2017
• The ship’s crane then lowered a hook down to the bottom, the drone attached the rigging to the hook, and Picasso reeled the $115 million dollar catch in.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023
• And so, here is your basic guide to Texas rig fishing for bass, include a step-by-step rigging guide and video.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2023
• Reefer was a term used to describe the sailors who were responsible for the task of climbing up the rigging on the great sailing ships of that time.
  — Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
• When that comes in and piles on with ideas of election rigging and voter fraud, for example.
  — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2020
• Then there were problems with the antenna, the motor starter failed, and new rigging on the mast broke, Marie Appel said.
  — Miguel Almaguer, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2017
• Passengers, such as the woman at center, may don a harness and climb the rigging to a platform that is 60 feet above the deck.
  — David G. Molyneaux, miamiherald, 8 Feb. 2018
• So sailors took out cutting tools and knives they’re required to carry as part of the racing protocol — and sliced away rigging as fast as possible, letting material sink into the water.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2024
• In one especially egregious case, the U.S. embassy endorsed the outcome of a rigged local election even before the federal government, which had done the rigging, could congratulate itself.
  — Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024