How to Use rigger in a Sentence

rigger

noun

• Ben O’Hanlon, the key stunt rigger, rigged up a slack line that went around a corner.
  — Leia Mendoza, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
• Her father was a rigger for the Navy, and her mother was a nanny.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
• Bergen said, noting that Roberta was the daughter of an oil rigger.
  — Gina McIntyre, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• Time and again, Lasley hears of a rigger who threw himself overboard with his pockets full of tools.
  — Amber Medland, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2022
• Oil rigger Start in a tabletop position, with palms flat and fingers wide.
  — Health.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• There are also five riggers, the crew that rope in athletes and their diggers on the steep sections during the build process.
  — Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
• Matthew Meadows, a parachute rigger from Texas who died from fentanyl alone.
  — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022
• Installation of the display involved dozens of riggers and two cranes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
• Yes, women served as parachute riggers and welders, and eventually became drill sergeants and pilots.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
• Night and day, welders, riggers and crane operators moved heavy metal up and down the shipyard in the harshest of conditions.
  — Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2018
• Carpenters, caulkers, riggers, and joiners combed over its decks like rats (which were also plentiful).
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Amid the coronavirus pandemic, riggers are now making cloth face masks to fight the virus for personnel around the sprawling Army base.
  — USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2020
• Riggers have been splicing lines of aramid fibers and rebuilding winches under headlamps in Jersey City while the sailors rest each night.
  — Chris Museler, New York Times, 5 May 2016
• The pilot was hidden and there was a stunt rigger also hidden, and then Eddie and Felicity, and that’s it!
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• The same is true of riggers, the crewmembers that use wire, ropes and other mechanisms to execute different action scenes in a production.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2023
• The Michigan riggers union owned the estate for a while as a retreat for members, workers who move very heavy materials or machinery.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2017
• Rosa said at first Garcia did his painting after his workday as a parachute rigger, a job at which Garcia was one of his best, Rosa said.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2020
• Production assistant Nancy Motes died by suicide, as did an unnamed rigger.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2023
• Most of my waking moments onboard are spent lounging by a small saltwater pool up on deck, under the sweeping canopy of canvas, or navigating around the riggers and booms and coils of rope.
  — Elissa Garay, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2023
• There were medical staff, a weather router, an expert rigger, an electronic systems manager, a sailmaker and many other team members.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
• This cruise aboard Sea Cloud, a historic square-rigger ship, begins in Bridgetown, Barbados for a true sailing adventure.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024
• On Tuesday, news broke that Swift had given some $55 million in total in bonuses to her dancers, sound technicians, riggers, and truck drivers.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2023
• Serra’s personality was as integral to the production process of his work as the steelyard’s workers and tools to bend it, the cranes to lift it, the ships to transport it, the riggers to install it, and so on.
  — Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
• In 1942, Gray worked there as a parachute rigger and tester–a job that involved checking parachutes for flaws and folding them into packs for proper deployment.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 6 June 2017
• Square-rigger ships once docked in a cove here to load lime for transport to Seattle, Vancouver and beyond, where it was used in making steel, plaster, cement and paper for a growing world.
  — Brian J. Cantwell, idahostatesman, 1 May 2017
• Early riggers also borrowed principles from other precarious fields, like mountain and rock climbing, which existed long before aerialists took to the trapeze and high wires.
  — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2016
• There were medical staff, a weather router, an expert rigger, an electronic systems manager, a sailmaker and many other team members helping Brauer.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
• The gifts total more than $55 million and were recently doled out to crew and collaborators including truckers, dancers, riggers, sound technicians, catering staff and more.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2023
• The opposition, led by Lulzim Basha, put the blame on the government, and says the political crisis will be solved when Rama resigns and vote-riggers are jailed.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2019
• Nicholson plays Bobby Dupea, an oil rigger and former piano prodigy living in California with his waitress girlfriend, Rayette.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Mar. 2020