- present participle of scaffold.
scaffolding
Example Sentences
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Both are star-studded, hyper-L.A. chase comedies that treat their central contrivances as nothing more than scaffolding for the scenes that actually count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Effortlessness, we agreed, generally has at least a little scaffolding underneath.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Older APOE2 knock-in mice had smaller nucleoli, higher levels of the nuclear scaffolding protein Lamin A/C, and better-preserved heterochromatin in the hippocampus than mice carrying APOE3 or APOE4.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
By removing the usual scaffolding that renders human life intelligible, above all custom and language, the books ask what lies beneath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Here the master carpenter supervised the cutting of timber for the construction of scaffolding, workshops, and machines.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
