How to Use rigmarole in a Sentence

rigmarole

noun

• He just told us what to do without all the usual rigamarole.
• We had to go through the rigmarole of installing, registering, and activating the software before we found out it wouldn't work.
• In any case, Alaskans will have to do this rigmarole again soon.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• This rigmarole has grown de rigueur enough to inspire a meme.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
• The surgery wasn’t meant to keep Aldridge from having to go through the league’s Disney bubble rigmarole, but that seems to be the side effect.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 13 June 2020
• The first was to allow Page to remove himself from the rigmarole of running the Google business.
  — Wired, 5 Dec. 2019
• The delay comes down to the rigmarole of finding the right building to house the antenna tower.
  — Kevin Warwick, Chicago Reader, 16 Aug. 2017
• This has been going on -- this rigmarole, as my mother used to say, has been going on for a long time.
  — Fox News, 29 Mar. 2018
• Aside from such rigmarole, the Surface Laptop 2 seems worth it.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 3 Oct. 2018
• Science Says: This is the fastest method for cooling a bottle of wine quickly, but also a bit of a rigmarole.
  — Mari Uyehara, Bon Appetit, 23 May 2017
• There’s none of that confusing swipe-right-or-left rigmarole.
  — Larry Doyle, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2022
• If Superman can just fly backwards and turn back the clock, why bother going through the rigmarole of fighting bad guys?
  — Frank Pallotta and Brian Lowry, CNN, 30 Apr. 2018
• Some of the usual hijinks ensue, the rigmarole of tense questions about whether the family will find out, and how, and what Esther’s going to do about it.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2022
• Newsletter Sign-up What unites this rigmarole is the notion that a great work of art serves as a conduit between the conscious and the unconscious mind.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• This entire rigmarole reflects a deeper failure of the process.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
• After several hours on set and quite the rigmarole, Carey's guest appearance was nixed.
  — Nardine Saad, latimes.com, 30 June 2017
• Some collectors are starting to find the rigmarole rather tedious.
  — Hannah Elliottbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• Baggage or no baggage, the rigmarole is nothing short of exhausting.
  — Kinvara Balfour, A-LIST, 23 Dec. 2017
• But even Express holders, who can walk right into the Fallon attraction without a reservation, have to wade through the pre-ride rigmarole.
  — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 13 June 2018
• For a company owner, a clean sale is usually preferable to the rigmarole of going public.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2019
• Going through the rigmarole of putting out Oreos on Christmas Eve may leave an exceptional impression on a young mind.
  — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
• And there’s a market for that: The Strand bookstore in New York will sell books by the foot for people who want bespoke-looking shelves without going through the rigmarole of choosing (and presumably reading) a book.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2021
• Instead of that rigmarole, Leininger said her children will see their grandparents via Zoom on Thanksgiving.
  — Carla K. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 10 Nov. 2020
• Instead of that rigmarole, Ms. Leininger said her children will see their grandparents via Zoom on Thanksgiving.
  — Carla Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2020
• But even those among the affluent chose to completely skip this internet rigmarole.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2021
• However, in the heart of the holiday season, that rigmarole is somehow interrupted by a 14-year-old.
  — Kathy Iandoli, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2017
• Why would Charlotte need to go through all that security rigmarole if Serac was only a hologram?
  — Scott Tobias, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020
• The same fool-me rigmarole repeated itself shortly thereafter, Smith writes.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
• Eagles fans, meanwhile, will likely face the usual rigmarole.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• The rigmarole would essentially freeze 2021 prices, precisely as insulin prices are poised to fall further.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 25 Jul 2024