jury-rigged
Example Sentences
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I jury-rigged a heating element for our Kenmore refrigerator’s balky ice-maker water-feed tube.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
Some A/Cs, like the one I’m testing, rest on jury-rigged hardware-store brackets; others lean on stacks of wood, or brick, or, in one case, a rock—their owners improvising to keep cool.
From Slate • Aug. 12, 2023
Ultimately the league canceled it altogether, which required jury-rigged adjustments to the playoff structure.
From Salon • Jan. 11, 2023
Nearby, other creations by Graves — part jury-rigged home science experiments, part occultist altars — included religious figurines, medical models, electrical audio gizmos, and tangles of wires and pipes.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022
This is something I've done a few times before, but never with a jury-rigged mess like this.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
