Sentence examples for jury-rig from inspiring English sources
verb
To make an improvised rigging or assembly from whatever is available.
CHIP KIDD: As an engineer, he can jury-rig anything.
It takes some ingenuity to jury-rig an anaerobic digester, Mr. David said.
I jury-rig a leash out of fishnet and walk Sofo around the grounds.
The boat's all-woman crew is proceeding under jury-rig to Halifax.
"We tried to jury-rig lines, but it never sounded right," Mr. Goodman said.
They sink wells in less polluted parts of the aquifer, and jury-rig power supplies.
Field and his team were continuing under jury rig.
"If it goes down, that's 15 days under jury rig".
The jury rig had failed and the top section of mast was leaning drunkenly forward.
"We took a chill pill, set up a jury rig and decided we would miss the next leg if we tried to finish," Worthington said.
In the aftermath, SEB's crew erected a jury rig and resumed course toward Argentina, where a backup rig is en route.
