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35 example sentences for RIG, such as:

1. He said the election had been rigged.
2. The soot is brushed from the lower rigging.
3. Poor folks shouldn't rig, said Jo decidedly.
4. Some international observers have claimed the election was rigged.
5. Previous elections in the country have been rigged by the ruling party.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIG
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rig
 v.  manipulate dishonestly; make or construct in haste
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Poor folks shouldn't rig, said Jo decidedly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINE
2  I suppose the others are torn up to rig ships, bandage cut fingers, or make kite tails.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
3  Scarlett was so surprised at the sight of their former overseer driving so fine a rig and in so splendid a greatcoat she could not for a moment believe her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  And Frank had deposited it in the bank in his own name, so now she could not even hire a rig.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
5  Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
6  The cabin entrance was locked within; the hatches were all on, and lumbered with coils of rigging.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
7  All down her sides, this spectral appearance was traced with long channels of reddened rust, while all her spars and her rigging were like the thick branches of trees furred over with hoar-frost.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.
8  But all these were collared, and dragged along the deck like dead cattle; and, side by side, were seized up into the mizzen rigging, like three quarters of meat, and there they hung till morning.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
9  But, perhaps you expect to get into heaven by crawling through the lubber's hole, cook; but, no, no, cook, you don't get there, except you go the regular way, round by the rigging.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
10  But that darkness was licked up by the fierce flames, which at intervals forked forth from the sooty flues, and illuminated every lofty rope in the rigging, as with the famed Greek fire.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
11  The soot is brushed from the lower rigging.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up.
12  Signals, ensigns, and jacks of all colours were flying from her rigging, on every side.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor.
13  Fired by the cry which seemed simultaneously taken up by the three look-outs, the men on deck rushed to the rigging to behold the famous whale they had so long been pursuing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
14  Another flash showed him four men clinging to the shattered mast and the rigging, while a fifth clung to the broken rudder.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
15  In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were following him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
Example Sentence:
1  Both the local workers' union and some of the foreign workers trapped aboard the rig have accused the management of Transocean of heavy handedness in its approach to resolving this dispute.
2  I dressed myself in nautical rig, and went on deck to see all that I could.
3  The boss was able to rig the election by bribing people to stuff the ballot boxes with ballots marked in his candidate's favor.
4  Anyone can rig up a machine to make somebody's larynx sing after their death?
5  It is a blazing morning in the Permian basin, in west Texas, America's most productive oilfield; on the high plains a rig gnaws at rock more than 3,000 feet underground.
6  WELL, all day him and the king was hard at it, rigging up a stage and a curtain and a row of candles for footlights; and that night the house was jam full of men in no time.
7  Aircraft carrying ballot boxes were shot at amid allegations of corruption and vote rigging.
8  Previous elections in the country have been rigged by the ruling party.
9  Some international observers have claimed the election was rigged.
10  Election officials have rigged up speakers to provide voters with music.
11  He said the election had been rigged.
12  The president, who imprisoned thousands of opponents after an attempted coup in 2016 and rigged the constitution, has a strained relationship with Germany.
13  After two weeks of negotiation between Transocean, the American-based company operating the rigs and local union representatives ended in deadlock.