How to Use rigging in a Sentence

rigging

noun

• They checked the rigging before they set sail.
• This was a part of the rigging of the election.
  — CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
• To taste the salty air and hear the wind chiming his sail rigging.
  — Lane Degregory, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
• So was the rope that was still attached to the rigging around his waist.
  — John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• Two firetrucks are no match for the colossal weight of the stage rigging.
  — Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
• Loosen your rigging lines and bring the sails and masts down alongside the hull.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• Matthew Mylrea would step in and do some line rigging and falls.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
• Kids can also climb a ship’s rigging, steer the wheel and fire air cannons.
  — Web Behrens, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2019
• Putting up the rigging was a lot of work, and there wasn’t always enough room for it on the ground.
  — David Hill, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• The first is that some of our rigging might not be along the lines of what a client normally ties.
  — Tom Keer, Field & Stream, 16 June 2020
• Chainplates are metal supports that poke through the deck for the rigging wires to clip to.
  — Ian McNanie, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2018
• But the upper parts of the hull, along with all the rigging, were plowed away, along with the mound itself.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 28 May 2020
• The race boat didn’t need assistance once the rigging was cut away, Dieball said.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2024
• By the time Chutaro learned of the boat, its life jackets, lines, and rigging had been taken.
  — Andrew Lewis, Outside Online, 14 Jan. 2022
• The scandal led to billions of dollars in fines on the banks involved in the rigging.
  — Simon Constable, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2018
• Almost all of the rigging and deck hardware on both ships remained intact.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2023
• When that comes in and piles on with ideas of election rigging and voter fraud, for example.
  — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2020
• People were just setting up the rigging and bringing in the flooring.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018
• Instead, each appears to be in motion, backs bent and arms reaching out to grasp the rigging.
  — Barbara Henry, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 June 2017
• Wire-rigging created a new set of challenges.
  — Oliver Sava, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
• Its hull, its rigging, and its sails that took us everywhere—providing there was a breeze.
  — Martin Dumont, The New York Review of Books, 5 Feb. 2020
• My preferred method of rigging is with a shaky head to get my bait down fast and add a little extra movement.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 28 Feb. 2023
• In another video, the boat's rigging appeared to be intact, but the sails were down.
  — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
• The vessel’s rigging rises far above the deck, forming a cat’s cradle of masts, ropes, and sails.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
• The automaker has claimed the engine rigging was done by a small group of engineers.
  — Christoph Rauwald, Bloomberg.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Local climbers tied their own ropes to the elk, ran the rigging over a tree, and created a hauling system.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2025
• The sizes and colors will vary, but the rigging and presentations remain the same.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• If Alex thought the rigging was even a bit sketchy, that could be playing in his mind instead of the climbing at hand.
  — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
• And so, here is your basic guide to Texas rig fishing for bass, include a step-by-step rigging guide and video.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2023
• Water froze instantly to the rigging; the dogs on deck, though protected in cages, were scared.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2022