How to Use scaffold in a Sentence

scaffold

noun

• The condemned man was led to the scaffold.
• That was on the outside, in terms of the body’s scaffold.
  — National Geographic, 15 Jan. 2017
• On March 31, Lee and his staff returned the Thinker to his perch on the south plaza with the help of a scaffold.
  — Randal Doane, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• The painters stood atop massive scaffolds to give the arcade the right touch Kahn sought.
  — Dan Austin, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2017
• Averill [sic] and Kate were given a horse to ride to the scaffold.
  — Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
• The next step is to connect all the ideas in your scaffold to the bigger picture.
  — Cheyenne Kamran, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• The dogs of war were baying, bloody chaos was let loose, And high above the rabble rose a scaffold and a noose.
  — John Lithgow, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• On Broadway and on tour, the Newsies danced with their papes on scaffolds.
  — chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• The bell is cast, and an army of townspeople gather to raise it on a scaffold, for a test.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• The tube acts as a scaffold for the stem cells to grow on and helps the cells develop the right structure to become bone.
  — AZCentral.com, 13 June 2021
• Log line: The child has egged herself on up the scaffold of her mother’s judgment and is stuck at its apex.
  — Fiona Maazel, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• The front and back of that digitized woman will be displayed on two sides of the scaffold, White said.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
• The only natural question is whether the staff climb the scaffolds at night.
  — Katherine Bernard, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• Scientists have to use scaffolds to make sure the organs grow into the right shapes.
  — Photograph Courtesy Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, National Geographic, 26 Jan. 2017
• Leave a collection of small stems at the center of the vase to provide leaves that protect the trunk and scaffolds from sun burn.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• The other threw a leg around the dangling light and cradled it while the scaffold collapsed beneath him.
  — Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 1 May 2020
• The implant includes a 3D scaffold that guides hair growth through the skin in the preferred direction.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2019
• The men weren’t able to raise or lower themselves without the working scaffold, Kane said.
  — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• Next to it, the blue scaffolds of an indoor crane resemble a launchpad gantry.
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 12 July 2018
• This matrix provided a scaffold that helped the cells grow.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Nov. 2021
• Witnesses say the dangling worker was on the side that dropped, while the other remained on the scaffold.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
• The splashy reveal of the band on a two-tiered scaffold for a Brazilian stadium show is worth the price of admission alone.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2019
• Bathe the scaffold in lung cells taken from newborn rats, and put the whole thing in a bioreactor to let the cells multiply and spread.
  — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2010
• The data then fill in that scaffold to tell me which parts of that structure are represented and which are not.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2018
• City Hall is glimpsed through the building scaffold near the lone house in a subdivision-to-be in Anza Vista Heights.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Aug. 2021
• Eduardo Rodriguez was working on top of a scaffold at the time.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 20 May 2018
• But many others whose names have been lost to history also lost their lives on the scaffold.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• Out of my careful breast On May 19, Anne climbed the steps to a scaffold that had been built especially for the occasion and made a short speech to the crowd.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 25 May 2018
• Just pruning the vertical portion back to the scaffold branch should be sufficient.
  — Marie Woodward, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2024
• The lowest branch should stand around 18 inches above the ground, with about 6 inches in height between subsequent scaffold branches.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024