How to Use jury-rig in a Sentence

jury-rig

verb
  • The trade between the periphery and the core was jury-rigged to favor the latter.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Young people today have a real hunger for interesting, honest stuff that doesn’t feel jury-rigged to make a ton of money.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 6 Aug. 2026
  • For pet owner Tyler (who preferred not to use his last name), relocating from Napa to New York with his dog Bread meant jury-rigging a plan when no Bark flights were available on his travel date.
    — Beth Landman, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
  • That realization has, in recent weeks, set off a scramble on the part of the Iranian regime to find suitable storage, an effort that has entailed everything from reactivating old storage facilities to jury-rigging vacant tankers to serve the purpose.
    — Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • On the wooden battlements of Tumbleton — designed to look like they were jury-rigged by Ormund’s army — the episode’s director, Andrij Parekh, is going through footage where Roddy’s crew breaks through the town’s defensive walls.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

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