How to Use rigger in a Sentence

rigger

noun

• 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
• Bergen said, noting that Roberta was the daughter of an oil rigger.
  — Gina McIntyre, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• Matthew Meadows, a parachute rigger from Texas who died from fentanyl alone.
  — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022
• Oil rigger Start in a tabletop position, with palms flat and fingers wide.
  — Health.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• Many of the immigrants worked on the waterfront, as shipbuilders, riggers, sailors and dock workers.
  — Nina Agrawal, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This cruise aboard Sea Cloud, a historic square-rigger ship, begins in Bridgetown, Barbados for a true sailing adventure.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Yes, women served as parachute riggers and welders, and eventually became drill sergeants and pilots.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 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
• 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
• 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
• Carpenters, caulkers, riggers, and joiners combed over its decks like rats (which were also plentiful).
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Dustin Miles, the senior rigger for Quality Towing, has worked with Sides on four recent car recoveries and is as invested as the divers in its excavation.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2022
• 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
• Nancy Motes, a production assistant, and an unnamed rigger.
  — Time, 18 Jan. 2023
• Production assistant Nancy Motes died by suicide, as did an unnamed rigger.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2023
• Isaiah Wilkins, a gay police officer in Georgia; a transgender lesbian woman who left the military in 2013 to transition and a straight woman who had dreams of becoming a parachute rigger.
  — Zachary Schermele, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Prohaska is a Tucson native who started rock climbing at 15, then worked as a research technician and industrial climber for Biosphere 2 before plying his climbing skills as a rigger for circuses and concerts.
  — Daniel Glick, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2017
• Laborers, carpenters, and operators will be hired first, and the company is also looking for pipefitters, riggers, electricians, welders, and ironworkers.
  — William Thornton [e-mail], AL.com, 20 July 2017

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024