jury-rigged

Example Sentences

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Yet now, without any justification, the supermajority has imported Callais’ jury-rigged standards into the constitutional rules against racial gerrymandering.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

I jury-rigged a heating element for our Kenmore refrigerator’s balky ice-maker water-feed tube.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

He’s jury-rigged a burglar alarm with foam so it makes a clattering sound loud enough for the neighbor’s Ring camera to pick up, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2025

So Mr. Holden jury-rigged a food-laden steel trap with a trip wire dangling from his second-story apartment.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

Everyone in the neighborhood was so full of their own cleverness at having jury-rigged a solution to the Tap-Out.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman