jury-rigged

Example Sentences

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With their de-watering wells, remote grids and jury-rigged modifications, residents in “The Bend” sometimes feel more like backcountry homesteaders.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

It is cherry-picked and jury-rigged, co-opted and corrupted, and yet it remains inextricable from American identity — which is precisely why it repeatedly finds its way into our fiction.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2023

Some A/Cs, like the one I’m testing, rest on jury-rigged hardware-store brackets; others lean on stacks of wood, or brick, or, in one case, a rock—their owners improvising to keep cool.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2023

Ultimately the league canceled it altogether, which required jury-rigged adjustments to the playoff structure.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2023

This is something I've done a few times before, but never with a jury-rigged mess like this.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir