jury-rigged
Example Sentences
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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
The entire film feels jury-rigged as if every action sequence — and there are too few of them — is designed by an algorithm rather than a human.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023
These are not the jury-rigged e-bikes that deliver Chinese food in Manhattan.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2023
A tugboat brought it from place to place, but the rest of the power aboard the craft came from the sun and a jury-rigged stationary bike.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022
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
