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
• One of my friends thought maybe the scaffolding at the finish had fallen.
  — Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• The scaffolding has remained there, marring the streetscape, for years.
  — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
• Vollmer’s reforms of a hundred years ago are the LAPD’s scaffolding to this day.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Just two tragedies — the scaffolding collapse and the SouthPark fire — accounted for five of those deaths.
  — Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2024
• But also triumphant: At long last Parisians can make out the spire behind the scaffolding.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
• The work is nearly done, and the temporary scaffolding, Gorton says, should be gone by the weekend.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2023
• It’s the scaffolding of the character and, accordingly, the movie.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
• The remainder of the sculpture, now surrounded by scaffolding, is scheduled to leave in pieces through the week.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• In the eerie still, a person is seen walking from scaffolding attached to the Old State House to another building on the other side of the street.
  — Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• To complete the work, crews set up a large set of scaffolding that spanned the entire track over the Yard of Bricks, with wooden boards affixed to the top to shield it from the elements.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Feb. 2023
• The mosaics are being restored as part of a six-year project, and a 105-foot scaffolding platform has been set up for workers.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 11 Feb. 2023
• The area around the building would be closed off to traffic and pedestrians until the scaffolding is removed, the statement said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• The campuses, often wrapped in scaffolding and chain link, can look like blight on a massive scale.
  — Curbed, 9 Jan. 2024
• Body cam shows officers ducking under the scaffolding while the door is locked.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 15 Dec. 2022
• But, on the balance, the series has been filled with too much of what an old writing teacher of mine would call throat-clearing or scaffolding.
  — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
• Five tents lined the sidewalk under the scaffolding by a shuttered school, a strip the people who live there call Anarchy Row.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• Without that kind of scaffolding, even the most well-meaning parents can move far more slowly or stall out.
  — Britt Peterson, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
• Those living cells move into the scaffolding’s nooks and crannies to restart the organ’s functions.
  — Lauran Neergaard, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2022
• The men were safe on the scaffolding, unremarkably wiping the windows clean.
  — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• Then the scaffolding for a sunscreen the size of a tennis court will open, followed by the sunscreen itself, made of five thin sheets of a plastic called Kapton.
  — New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• For us, scaffolding is an indispensable tool for getting any idea or project off the ground.
  — Cheyenne Kamran, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• Hours later, police came to the palace and dragged him off the scaffolding, according to media accounts.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
• As seen above, there might be a different Spider-Man on that scaffolding, whose arm Sony forgot to erase.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 17 Nov. 2021
• Once Endeavour is in place, scaffolding will be erected around the entire stack to protect the equipment as the rest of the museum is built around it.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The Cowboys hoped the organization’s role in that scaffolding would help seal a deal for his return.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2022
• If the owners don’t comply by Feb. 17, the city will begin the cleanup process and get rid of scaffolding, barriers and other debris on the sidewalks.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024