Sentence examples for rigged device from inspiring English sources

The shells are rock hard, but an artfully rigged device incises them and extracts the kernels, which Russell himself grades and bags.

Scores of villagers have signed up for jobs slicing away at the mud beneath the recently drained paddy, using a jerry-rigged device called a cheese cutter.

The flagellum, he says, far from being a custom design, so to speak, made from parts expressly created for that purpose, is, like so much else in nature, a jury-rigged device made from bits cobbled together from the cellular spare-parts bin.

It has taken BP nearly three months to finally cap its gushing oil well in the gulf, after repeated failures to plug the well using a series of jury-rigged devices.

Working in remote places with simple tools and jury-rigged devices breeds a special kind of competence that can set a global-minded engineer apart.

"This show is rigged!!!

The Pentagon learns that the blasts will set off a secret Soviet "doomsday device" rigged to destroy the earth.

The police found four suicide vests rigged with hundreds of metal ball bearings, two improvised explosive devices, also rigged with ball bearings, four AK-47 assault rifles, ammunition and 12 grenades.

Thieves can completely replace a merchant's point of sale terminal with a device that is rigged to record or divert card data wirelessly, or simply store the data until the criminal comes back and removes it.

NEWS The explosives that killed three people and injured more than 170 during the Boston Marathon on Monday were most likely rudimentary devices made from ordinary kitchen pressure cookers, except they were rigged to shoot sharp bits of shrapnel into anyone within reach of their blast and maim them severely, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

BOSTON — The explosives that killed three people and injured more than 170 during the Boston Marathon on Monday were most likely rudimentary devices made from ordinary kitchen pressure cookers, except they were rigged to shoot sharp bits of shrapnel into anyone within reach of their blast and maim them severely, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.