How to Use scaffolding in a Sentence

scaffolding

noun

• Gronk did pullups on the scaffolding at the main stage.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 1 May 2022
• There was a dance in the scaffolding around Notre Dame.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2024
• On Wednesday, Schultz and Forshee climbed the scaffolding to the top of the steeple.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
• Users sleep on the stairs of a nearby church and perch in scaffolding.
  — Annie Correal, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• The church for years has had scaffolding in the central nave to support work on the dome.
  — Sharon Samber, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2017
• But the skeleton isn’t just a lifeless scaffolding for the rest of your flesh.
  — Alex Schwartz, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2020
• One of my friends thought maybe the scaffolding at the finish had fallen.
  — Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• In any case, the plot is just scaffolding — a pretext for the dancing.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• The scaffolding has remained there, marring the streetscape, for years.
  — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
• In Venice, the scaffolding has just come down from the Rialto Bridge.
  — Julia Buckley, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2017
• Nature doesn't give us a library of skills, just the scaffolding to build one.
  — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 24 May 2018
• Vollmer’s reforms of a hundred years ago are the LAPD’s scaffolding to this day.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• So, the earn-a-book program, well, that’s just the training wheels, the scaffolding through which learning takes place. ...
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2020
• The first movie had a bare-bones plot, a skeleton scaffolding on which to hang set piece after set piece.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• The section where the cathedral’s spire appeared to be on fire had been wrapped in scaffolding.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 11 July 2024
• As for the start of the dome project, Johnson was pleased the scaffolding was finally going up.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2023
• The enormous scaffolding which the clones have constructed drives home the point that something very bad is in the works.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Feb. 2025
• While climbing the scaffolding, Cash said he was maced.
  — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2021
• Up against a wall in the Amber Lab is a robot that bounces up and down a scaffolding like a piston.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 June 2018
• Work on the outside of the dome is marked by the construction scaffolding that surrounds it.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
• Actually Cam helps build the roof, and the ceiling, and the scaffolding for structures all over the world.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 17 May 2017
• Another angle showed the scaffolding was a few floors away from the top of the high-rise building.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 1 Mar. 2025
• Despite its dizzying height, the scaffolding is shorter than the tree; at the top, the fig’s crown is still overhead.
  — National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2016
• Someone flipped a switch, and a set of cameras mounted on scaffolding began to creep over the rows.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• The team from Norman also had to build scaffolding inside the radar.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
• The primary work for those on the scaffolding, however, is on shoring up the stone work.
  — Barry Adams, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• Just two tragedies — the scaffolding collapse and the SouthPark fire — accounted for five of those deaths.
  — Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2024
• According to the Washington Post, the team had to gain a special permit from the U.S. just to build the scaffolding.
  — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2017
• When that scaffolding is abnormal, those bricks can't lay down well – hence the weak bones.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
• But also triumphant: At long last Parisians can make out the spire behind the scaffolding.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023