How to Use scaffolding in a Sentence

scaffolding

noun

• Gronk did pullups on the scaffolding at the main stage.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 1 May 2022
• There was a dance in the scaffolding around Notre Dame.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2024
• But the skeleton isn’t just a lifeless scaffolding for the rest of your flesh.
  — Alex Schwartz, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2020
• One of my friends thought maybe the scaffolding at the finish had fallen.
  — Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• The scaffolding has remained there, marring the streetscape, for years.
  — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
• Vollmer’s reforms of a hundred years ago are the LAPD’s scaffolding to this day.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• So, the earn-a-book program, well, that’s just the training wheels, the scaffolding through which learning takes place. ...
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2020
• The first movie had a bare-bones plot, a skeleton scaffolding on which to hang set piece after set piece.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• The section where the cathedral’s spire appeared to be on fire had been wrapped in scaffolding.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 11 July 2024
• As for the start of the dome project, Johnson was pleased the scaffolding was finally going up.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2023
• While climbing the scaffolding, Cash said he was maced.
  — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2021
• Work on the outside of the dome is marked by the construction scaffolding that surrounds it.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
• Someone flipped a switch, and a set of cameras mounted on scaffolding began to creep over the rows.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• The team from Norman also had to build scaffolding inside the radar.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
• The primary work for those on the scaffolding, however, is on shoring up the stone work.
  — Barry Adams, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• Just two tragedies — the scaffolding collapse and the SouthPark fire — accounted for five of those deaths.
  — Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2024
• When that scaffolding is abnormal, those bricks can't lay down well – hence the weak bones.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
• But also triumphant: At long last Parisians can make out the spire behind the scaffolding.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
• A few days later, Sony took down the set photos showing the scaffolding against the blue background.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Sep. 2021
• As the search continued, two search dogs were carried up the steep scaffolding stairs to the floor below the collapse.
  — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• The view from the top of the scaffolding that surrounds the steeple of St. Norbert Catholic Church will only be around for another month or so.
  — Barry Adams, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• The workers along the scaffolding presented a nod to the trades and French craftsmanship.
  — Glynn A. Hill, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• Helicopter news footage shows a large pile of downed scaffolding and other equipment next to one of the stages.
  — NBC News, 23 July 2021
• Helicopter news footage showed a large pile of downed scaffolding and other equipment next to one of the stages.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2021
• This order has proven to be a much stronger scaffolding approach.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• The work is nearly done, and the temporary scaffolding, Gorton says, should be gone by the weekend.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2023
• It’s the scaffolding of the character and, accordingly, the movie.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
• ArtWorks headed the project and Ruthven climbed the scaffolding with student artists to create the tribute.
  — The Enquirer, 12 Oct. 2020
• Notre-Dame Cathedral sat in the pre-dawn chill like a spaceship docked in the heart of Paris, its exoskeleton of scaffolding lit by bright lights.
  — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• Vaughn’s condition is more serious because he has been impaled by the scaffolding.
  — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024