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
The entire film feels jury-rigged as if every action sequence — and there are too few of them — is designed by an algorithm rather than a human.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023
The sloppy finishes are surely temporary, jury-rigged as the scheduled museum opening arrived.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2022
Everyone in the neighborhood was so full of their own cleverness at having jury-rigged a solution to the Tap-Out.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
