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
• 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
• 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
• Dozens of protesters locked themselves to trucks and bamboo scaffolding to block the road outside the plants.
  — Bloomberg.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• The remainder of the sculpture, now surrounded by scaffolding, is scheduled to leave in pieces through the week.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• When exploring the dome as a possible site, the two were shown the space between the supporting scaffolding and the stained glass in passing, but the pair seized on the idea of shooting in the unusual location.
  — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 9 Sep. 2024
• Back then, the Royal Caribbean vessel was essentially a blank canvas, shrouded in scaffolding and netting, with patches of pale blue livery splotched across the hull.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024