- present participle of scaffold.
scaffolding
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Hospitality has always had scaffolding beneath it; ideally, the guest simply doesn’t spend much time looking at it.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Workers removed Trump's name from the building in June, but scaffolding and tarps have remained ever since.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The model is only scaffolding, which, after consuming vast amounts of training data and running trillions of permutations, arrives at an outcome that can’t be known beforehand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Sweeney believes the scaffolding had only been up a few days so the building work had not yet started.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Since long pieces of wood were both difficult to find and expensive, the scaffolding for the walls above the arcade did not reach to the ground.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
