rig up
Example Sentences
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Every year, industrial specialists rig up a rope system that allows brave spring cleaners to access the aircraft from the ceiling.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025
Every day, aid groups hand out meals and the local authorities rig up water taps for the hundreds of migrants who gather at the site.
From Reuters • Sep. 10, 2021
Young women helped her rig up her bedsheet, which kept out the glaring lights.
From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2021
Jerry Gully sat on a bar stool in the dim daylight inside Moose Lodge 2284 on Tuesday, wondering whether he could rig up a generator to pump water from a well.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2019
Maybe he could rig up some kind of shelter, so that Abby would have a special place to wait while he was gone.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
