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
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
Young women helped her rig up her bedsheet, which kept out the glaring lights.
From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2021
We’ll rig up an operating room in the laboratory here, and take pictures of Burton.”
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
