How to Use rig in a Sentence

rig

1 of 2 noun
Definition of rignext
Synonyms for rignext
  • He drives a big rig.
  • The couple built the rig in their garage over 10 months.
    — Emme Hall, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Deputies arrived and found the rig sticking out of the front of the building.
    — Fox News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The rest of the warehouse is given over to rigs where the bikes are tested.
    — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • And don’t forget the Fusion camera, a state-of-the-art 3D rig.
    — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Foot by foot, the rig’s hammer slammed the pillar into the ground with the rhythmic beat of a metronome.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The lake record is still a monster though, caught just a couple years ago on a wacky rig.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The colors are meant to reflect Boston Harbor, and the curves, the knots from boat rigs.
    — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • This can cause damage to the rig and increase the risk of accidents.
    — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In spite of this, the rig never showed any signs of distress due to the subpar weather.
    — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 28 May 2023
  • Yanis’s boyfriend had parked his rig beside a small herd of goats.
    — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • This 625-pound rig is one of the best ways to do real deal, low-and-slow barbecue at home.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 15 May 2023
  • This rig looks tasty to just about anything under the surface.
    — David A. Rose, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Next, add a 3-inch peg float to the fluorocarbon, then finish the rig with a size 10/0 circle hook.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Five drilling rigs were noisily at work, pounding their way to a depth of 850 feet.
    — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • In the winter, the pass can become so shrouded in dense fog that big-rig trucks get stranded.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The same rigs, though, produce nearly half of the UK’s energy.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In August Darke traveled to Israel to ride the custom rig.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2022
  • My line went taut, and then the rig danced down the gunnel like a sewing machine needle toward the motor.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 10 June 2023
  • The Santa Rita No. 1 rig sits on the edge of the Austin campus, near the football stadium.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • For deeper fish use a jigging spoon or drop-shot rig 40 to 60 feet deep along gravel points and humps.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The storm also washed 3 feet of mud and rock onto State Highway 126, stranding a long line of cars and big-rig trucks.
    — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The high-tech rig even looks just like the defending champions’s race car.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The number of rigs drilling for crude dropped again this week, a sign that U.S. producers are pessimistic about prices.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 2 June 2023
  • The rig also comes equipped with heated hand grips, a halogen light, and drift cutters.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The storm also washed 3 feet of mud and rock onto State Highway 126, stranding a long line cars and big-rig trucks.
    — Christopher Weber and Stefanie Dazio, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • As for the ideal rig, start by sliding a ½- to 1-ounce egg sinker onto the braid followed by a plastic bead.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Financed with your own money and little or no sponsors, talk a bit about your bike choice for the rig.?
    — Joe Michaud, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Big-rig drivers peer over, surprised to see a pickup with the same driver's seat H-point.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The rig design has yet to be confirmed, but the yacht will be fitted with an in-boom furling system.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2024
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rig

2 of 2 verb
  • Was the 2020 election 'rigged,' 'so rigged' and 'crooked'?
    — Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • But that’s all the folks in Colorado needed to claim the game was rigged.
    — Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 17 May 2023
  • The game was rigged, the ending already set — or so many thought.
    — Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 9 June 2023
  • The film claims the scheme was widespread enough to rig the election for Biden, a Democrat.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022
  • But words alone won't be enough to rig the universe in your favor.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Jan. 2023
  • This year, Aronson was rigged up to arrive on the stage from the bowels of the theater.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The charges confirmed, in the eyes of his supporters, that the system is rigged against them.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The 2020 election was rigged — stolen from President Trump by Biden and the Democrats.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Read How to prosper in a financial world that’s rigged against you.
    — Alex Wood, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • If this is a little too slow for your taste, rig a seedless worm like the Zoom Speed Worm with a 1/16th-ounce bullet weight at the nose.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The rival parties said the vote was rigged, and called for throwing out the results and holding a new election.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 1 Mar. 2023
  • She, too, coaches and works in the rigging department for Cirque du Soleil.
    — Alix Wall, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • That sounds a lot like Sankey-speak for further rigging the system to favor the league who employs him.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Like all hollow tube baits, this one dips and dives best when rigged on an internal lead head jig.
    — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Much has been said about the camera rigs the filmmakers developed with the Navy to fit inside the cockpit of today’s F/A-18, the plane most in the movie.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Outside, the men are trying to rig a solar panel on top of a water truck to pump out water.
    — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Sue Legg, a member of the board for the Network for Public Education, agreed that the system is rigged.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Twitter seems to be Musk’s favorite game and, since taking over, he’s been trying to rig it in his own favor.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2023
  • For example, the walls and ceiling of a garage can be rigged for holding camping gear storage.
    — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The harsh truth, says Braziel, is that the game is rigged against anyone lacking the resources or expertise to fight their corner.
    — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • This new offering from the venerable Pautzke’s can be rigged many ways, comes in many colors, and won’t die in your fridge.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In 2004, an attempt to rig an election was defeated by a mass movement.
    — Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But Friedman said there are a few reasons why organizers might want to rig it.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • There's still a company to run (and potentially sell) and an election to rig.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 11 Apr. 2023
  • To prove a crime was committed, the government had to demonstrate that the executives agreed to rig bids or fix prices.
    — H. Claire Brown, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Michael Ferrara, another of Ms. Carroll’s lawyers, noted in the interview that the jurors’ handling of the case showed that the process was not rigged.
    — Kate Christobek, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • That is now believed by some to be connected to a cabal that allegedly rigged the 2020 election.
    — Ellen Friedrichs, Parents, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Lend just a bit of light—without having to worry about rigging up wired lighting—with a charming set of bistro lights strung around your fire pit.
    — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 17 May 2023
  • In the age where tin-foil hat conspiracies go mainstream, cracking the door with any breadcrumb to doubt the integrity of games was rigged or fixed builds a house of cards.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 13 July 2023
  • Former President Donald Trump, who lost to Biden, has falsely claimed that the election was rigged and sought to overturn the results.
    — Catherine Lucey, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024

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