rig up
Example Sentences
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Every year, industrial specialists rig up a rope system that allows brave spring cleaners to access the aircraft from the ceiling.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025
She eventually wrote to a YouTube prankster who targets scammers, asking him to rig up a bait car that could scare off thieves.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2022
They’re nervous that something similar could happen again — that by the time they get a new rig up and running, prices will have returned to Earth, and they’ll go bust again.
From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2022
Every day, aid groups hand out meals and the local authorities rig up water taps for the hundreds of migrants who gather at the site.
From Reuters • Sep. 10, 2021
He made the entire apparatus, including the box that housed the equipment, and he figured out how to rig up a long wire antenna to get a signal.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
