How to Use rigger in a Sentence
rigger
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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
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Bergen said, noting that Roberta was the daughter of an oil rigger.
—Gina McIntyre, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
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Matthew Meadows, a parachute rigger from Texas who died from fentanyl alone.
—Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022
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Oil rigger Start in a tabletop position, with palms flat and fingers wide.
—Health.com, 26 Sep. 2017
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Many of the immigrants worked on the waterfront, as shipbuilders, riggers, sailors and dock workers.
—Nina Agrawal, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Yes, women served as parachute riggers and welders, and eventually became drill sergeants and pilots.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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Carpenters, caulkers, riggers, and joiners combed over its decks like rats (which were also plentiful).
—David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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Nancy Motes, a production assistant, and an unnamed rigger.
—Time, 18 Jan. 2023
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Production assistant Nancy Motes died by suicide, as did an unnamed rigger.
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Laborers, carpenters, and operators will be hired first, and the company is also looking for pipefitters, riggers, electricians, welders, and ironworkers.
—William Thornton Wthornton@al.com, AL.com, 20 July 2017
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