How To Use Jig In A Sentence

Annoyingly, the Critical Care was at the bottom of this mug, requiring a little bit of inginuity from Irwin here - namely ramming his paw in and jiggling about a bit. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The papyri are broken and illegible; you must assemble an intelligible jigsaw from jagged fragments, truncated lines and eroded ink. Times, Sunday Times
The vital ingredient of popular appeal was not there despite several bids to rejig the story.
I have found that a tool guided by a straight-edge, and "jiggered" backwards and forwards, makes by far the best lines for blind-tool work. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
Specimens are rarely found in one unbroken piece, and the process of reconstituting them is akin to completing a jigsaw puzzle.

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Competitors danced the Highland fling, the sword dance, the sean triubhais, the Highland reel, the sailors' hornpipe, the Irish Jig and other dances, preferably to the music of the bagpipe.
It says it wants 10 percent minority representation, and then they have to jigger the system to figure out how to reach that number.
Unable to contain their joy, boys of Punjab broke into a song prompting their friends to do a jig.
As I looked at these mines with their thousands of grinning natives and heard the rattle of gravel in the "jigs" my mind went back to Kimberley and the immense part that its glittering wealth played in determining the economic fate of South Africa. An African Adventure
I thought we had a good system that couldn't be beaten but we had to rejig the company away from stationery and into bespoke printing services.
Will it cause permanent damage to the sector or is it just rejiggering an out-of-control market?
Jigeehuu ambled shakily over to it after our first embrace and ladled out half a pint for me in a rice bowl.
We spent all evening doing a 1000-piece jigsaw.
The important thing is the fun of four people(one thin person included)sitting around a card table, working a jigsaw puzzle.
She jiggled with the lock.
Riders avoid our faces, and gaze down on our skull crowns where the bone jigsaw cleaves.
Here is an event that is sure to trigger the youngsters to hop on to the dance floor for a jig.
Uphill it's no slogger either, with barely a jiggle of movement from the shock, even with the bike set to 'freeride' amounts of sag. Singletrack World
I was jigging about on the cobble stone path, partly because I was excited at seeing my new house for the first time, but mainly because it was mid January and, quite frankly, flipping cold!
I can't begin to describe the horrors being perpetrated by the DJ's, their insistent attempts to incite a conga line, or the, um, "dancing" of the patrons who -- despite clearly being the offspring and younger relatives that the publisher folks had passed on their tickets to -- managed to make your dad's elbow-jiggle and hip-shoogle look like The Moves Of The Groove. Archive 2006-10-01
This CD blends an equal amount of exciting reels, jigs and hornpipes, along with a selection of old and new songs performed by the lyrical and commanding voice of Ciarán Ó Gealbháin, who is joined on one of the tracks by the great Liam Clancy.
Several members also gave a song or two and took to the floor for some jigs.
And, a jig saw or coping saw is just about the only tool you'll need, so don't fret if you are not particularly handy with a hammer and saw.
Finish the cutout with a sharp handsaw, jigsaw or reciprocating saw.
The jigs were set to popular tunes of the day and, apart from the few short sections of spoken text, one can assume that most were through-sung. A New Start
She did herself and her teachers proud as she danced reels and slip-jigs in her wonderful costume.
Skarlis, for example, colors his jig purple where the forage is sheepshead or bluegill, green for sunfish, orange and yellow for perch, and black or brown for bullhead or eelpout. A Walleye Pro's Tricks for Customizing Soft-Plastic Grubs
Mineral process of hematite in the early time often adopted gravity separation, and it mainly included jig, centrifugal separator, spiral chute, spiral concentrator, shaking table and so on.
With whom is David Gregory going to get "jiggy" tonight? Joseph A. Palermo: The White House Correspondents' Association Dinner: Nothing to Celebrate
The band has put together a lively selection of 52 jigs, reels and hornpipes, many of which were played by the original band.
After years of devotion to perfecting his art, it is no wonder Jiggy takes his career to heart.
Well I'm jiggered!
Playing truant from school is mitching in Ulster; twagging in East Yorkshire; slamming in Bradford; jigging in York; skidging in Paisley in Scotland; and skiving almost everywhere.
The chance of the rope coming out of the krab on anchor placements is small unless you decide to do an Irish jig on the stance, especially when using a clove hitch that is pulled tight.
Ptolemy Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were putting a jigsaw puzzle together, a scene of flowers, grass, and butterflies painted on thin wood that some master craftsman with a fretsaw had cut into small, irregular pieces. Antony and Cleopatra
The tire was whipped off and changed in jig time.
The off-key singing of the congregations at Church and the reels and jigs of the Connecticut fiddle players enchanted him.
The back panel was easier, since I will be making an acrylic motherboard tray with a square back panel, I just cut it out with my jigsaw.
Another piece of the jigsaw in the puzzle surrounding her whereabouts is the simultaneous disappearance of her pet miniature dachshund, Boris. The Sun
He needs a variety of power tools, drills, routers, circular saws, jigsaws and packets of blades.
This process is akin to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle.
It's getting jiggy in the online music marketplace again, after a relatively quiet year of repositioning and research.
Even bindings have been rejiggered: Forget the drill and screwdriver; the latest fittings snap or slide into place, extending ski life and improving energy transfer.
Jigsaw has locked a bunch of strangers in a spooky old house with nerve gas slowly killing them off.
If I missed a workout due to work or illness, Jim would simply rejigger my scheduled workouts.
And if we jigger the foundation design to suit the purposes of organizations that will likely be dead in 15 years, how shortsighted is that?
We found the missing piece of the jigsaw under the chair.
She was wound up, jumbled inside like a spilled jigsaw puzzle.
Miller was an armorer for the Army Marksmanship Unit who taught Vickers how to fit a barrel - the old fashioned way - slow, deliberate, no jigs or fixtures, just skillful handwork.
They swapped their heads around and played and partied and danced and jigged and forgot who they were.
This week's emotionally intense, all or nothing energy inclines people towards radical solutions and massive rejigs rather than compromises or incremental steps.
She showed me how she cooked the rice, chopped the onions and cut to pieces the jiggly white tofu.
Morris men, belly dancers and musicians jigged and played for an estimated 30,000 people.
If only I can work out a way of securing it so it doesn't jiggle about, can I make a second plant out of it?
When I was there the fiddler was a septuagenarian named John MacDougal, who sat straight up in a plain chair and rasped out jigs, reels, strathspeys and airs with solemnity worthy of a judge.
We burned you up (though you mentioned the River); the mother-bitch and I watched the old lamb jiggle you into a hole amid the sprawls of pachysandra. Not from the self but from the Other
Kit car replicas arrive as a confusing jigsaw of pieces which have to be bolted together, often in the family garage.
Molecules have a definite structure, but the electron bonds that hold the atoms together are not rigid: they jiggle and wiggle and twist and stretch.
The shake was merely jiggled chocolate milk, sans ice cream.
My friends and I never use the word jiggy except when we’re listening to Will Smith. No Uncertain Terms
For assembly, the parts are placed in jigs which travel along the assemble line and which maintain alignment while welding takes place.
Did we laugh and celebrate and dance a hundred jigs?
The US is in no position to rejigger this because we don't understand anything about the country.
If God is a product of evolution, like bipedalism and tool making, well, the jig's up and not just for evangelicals. Pete Enns: Once More, With Feeling: Adam, Evolution And Evangelicals
Most of the tiny bits of jigsaw on show here survived accidentally, cemented into the walls as rubble, dropped into coal bunkers and forgotten. Times, Sunday Times
Voting rights should be rejiggered to make the IMF more representative of the world, and a more attractive forum for Asian nations.
They walk away with a look of feigned understanding while I jiggle away, belly and double chin and all.
Development of the sugar industry has been given high priority by both the Federal Government, for domestic food needs, and Jigawa and Bauchi States for local economic development. Fact Sheet On Us And Nigeria Expanding Trade And Investment
Yet another social media/virtual networking thingumajig to sign up to. Times, Sunday Times
As consciousness first dawns, the infant begins to grasp — in the form of individual items of experience — jigsaw pieces in what might be an immense jigsawed picture of the meaning of his existence, and of life itself. Religion is like a jigsaw: it makes a picture out of puzzling chaos
Metro drivers spend the day jiggling in air-conditioned cabins, sitting on fold-down chairs small enough to persuade many to stand.
Strap the silicone butterfly in place, plug it into your favourite music player and get jiggy with the musical beat.
I have come a long way from my days of getting jiggy for my "crackberry" as a colleague used to refer to hand-held electronic devices; nonetheless, I feel a vague uneasiness when far from the ability to reach out and touch civilization. Meg Pier: Silence of Spain's Tabernas Desert
Then, earlier this month, employee paychecks were delayed after a financial rejiggering and a wave of staff layoffs.
Sometimes these snippets of information have been the final piece of the jigsaw, which has enabled us to obtain a search warrant and make an arrest.
They are irritated at another rejig of the curriculum and angry at the loss of jobs for those teachers whose subjects have been cut. Shining moment for maths
One visitor to a black tavern in the Five Points heard a hybrid music: “In the Negro melodies you catch a strain of what has been metamorphosed from such Scotch or Irish tune, into somewhat of a chiming jiggish air.” A Renegade History of the United States
There was also a small square sail which would be hoisted to a yard on the foremast and two trysails to be hoisted on the jigger.
But when Frakture put these jigsaws together they didn't fit properly.
Will Microsoft jigger Pd to prevent Linux from running?
He hopped out the side door and did a short piece of a jig.
I understand how one can derive that measuring with a jigger is more precise, and perhaps more profitable for beverage operations. Karl Kozel: Measure For Measure
It turns out that they have been placed there by the Jigsaw Killer, a serial murderer rampaging through the unnamed city.
She danced an Irish jig.
The fat that jiggles when you move, on the hips, thighs and tummy, isn't the problem.
It is an astonishing comeback for someone who, five years ago, was charged with racially aggravated assault after allegedly calling a black lavatory assistant a 'jigaboo' before charmingly punching her in the face. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
It is a good haddock ground all the year; a cod ground in August, when these fish are "jigged"; a hake ground from Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
In this paper, by using finite element method, the stress calculation and strength analysis for the location of the rectangle opening in the dye jigger were carried out.
I'm convinced that film has a soul, and for me it's the jiggle in the [projector] gate.
So, you could say I am having the best of my childhood now, buying bears, jigsaw puzzles, paper dolls and what have you.
I've had good luck with a waxworm on a 1/32 oz. (size 8 or 10) jighead. good luck. It's been quite a while since I actively fished thru the ice but want to get back into it this winter.
I compromised with the inevitable by having Wada make up my bed on the deck in the shelter of the cabin skylight just for'ard of the jiggermast. CHAPTER XLIV
Half their team were delayed when the Selby Toll Bridge jammed, forcing a rejig of their batting order at Burn.
The glory days of manufacturing in Germany or high-tech silicon-chip makers in the US will not be restored by rejigging currency exchange rates in the dollar's favour, Rogoff said.
His eyes drop, and he drifts with the wild ice ticking seaward down the Hudson, like the blank sides of a jigsaw puzzle.
A’ways talkshee werry bad troubles, a’ways talkee jig-jig cow chillo in bath, wat never mind. Tai-Pan
He lead me off into their vast collection of dohickeys, doodads, and thingamajigs.
Heck, even the first warp drive ship in Star Trek: First Contact was depicted being launched on a rejigged ICBM just like the Geminis that went up on Titans. Beam me up Wayne - NASA Watch
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan's move to rejigger his management team should kill any lingering thoughts that Merrill Lynch could be reborn. Mother Merrill Staying Put
Pipe tunes, mouth music, jigs and reels nestle alongside songs and ballads, most originating from Fowlis' native South Uist.
He then rejiggered it to echo both the museum's eccentric modernist window and his childhood bedroom.
The reality is that childcare is mainly a jigsaw puzzle. Times, Sunday Times
We'll have to rejig the shed in order to get the extra chairs in.
I just stood in the drizzle, jiggling my keys in my hand as I watched him peel out of the parking lot.
Some would consider that a huge burden to bear, especially if, like the former international defender, they were appointed after the transfer window had shut leaving little scope for even a minor rejig of personnel.
Without that bounce, AMD would likely fall prey to the summer "rejiggering" that often plagues processor-makers this time of year. AMD Gets Back-To-School Bounce
I' not very jiggy with labelling myself but I vastly prefer the word gastronomer to foodie. At My Table
One piece of the jigsaw is still missing.
The word jigging is all Nelson’s, or would be if not for Nick’s interjection that unfortunately misses the point that PZ makes quite clearly. Yet another reason Paul Nelson is extremely silly - The Panda's Thumb
It is fiercely vigorous, but in its execution there is no attempt at gracefulness; no attention to positions, of which the old dancing-masters told us there were five; there was little attempt at step—it was simply ‘jigging’ or as sometimes called clog dancing. A Renegade History of the United States
Reels and jigs, marches and waltzes, strathspeys, airs and hornpipes flow once the guests are lubricated with a drop of the hard stuff.
They twitched, swayed and finally did a lively little jig - but there was no bird in sight.
: -) Anyway, I expect you know all about the rich cousin and everything since you're getting jiggy with Leanne. GOING OUT
PRIME ministers rejig their cabinets for various reasons: to breathe fresh life into reform efforts, to reward favoured ministers and punish others, to send voters or markets a signal of intent.
The shake was merely jiggled chocolate milk, sans ice cream.
Namely, the act's rejig of debit-card fees, the so-called Volcker rule's prohibition on proprietary trading and changes to derivatives regulation. The Battle Over Too-Big-to-Fail Continues
Drawing, cutting with a jigsaw, mixing the enamel paint and painting the cutouts proved more difficult than the students had imagined.
Conspicuous lacunae indicate that key pieces of the jigsaw have been suppressed. The Times Literary Supplement
If the door won't open, try jiggling the key in the lock.
A long handle beats you to death during the vertical jigging motion for the plastic, or the zigzag for the topwater.
Another thing is if you are fishing a pond that doesn't have a very good crawdad population, then maybe the fish just don't want to bite a jig. How do I choose a bass jig?
Individual stew/casseroles that I like include: the “Hae Mul Cham Doo Boo” (hand made tofu casserole mixed with various seafood) and “Doo Boo Darn Jang Jigae” (hand made tofu with squash, potato, green pepper in soybean pasta stew) — both only $7.95 at lunch. PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Grace” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
It took a moment to jiggle the badly-cut key in my door, but eventually I managed to open it.
Jig variety of types, there is a fixed type, sub - degree - style , flat - style , flip - style, mobile column and zoning.
He jiggled the object in his palm, Queeg-like.
Sloughs jigsawed the landscape, water oozed and streamed from roadside rocks. Raymond Carver
What do you call that thingamajig? You know - the circle with the line through it.
Check the hardware store for an extra length metal cutting jigsaw blade.
Work your mind with brain-teasers, jigsaw puzzles, crosswords or quiz books.
This elegant edgy little piece of the interchange jigsaw has a glass roof supported by a pyramidal steel structure and profiled concrete columns.
But here we're making predictions based on certain assumptions, just like Gartner is, and using similar mathematical jiggery-pokery.
Her new album contains a colossal 18 tracks, some of them traditional songs, some instrumental traditional airs, reels, jigs and waltzes.
One opposition member has already said he suspects the premier will simply come up with some diversionary tactic - a "thingamajig" - aimed at pacifying the public. Thestar.com - Home Page
You didn't just jig about by yourself, I mean you danced properly.
Headless press fit bushings offer two advantages: they can be installed flush with the jig plate without counterboring the mounting hole and they can be mounted closer together than headed bushings.
(NPHCDA), who supervises immunization activities in Kano and in six other northern states: Katsina, Jigawa, Kaduna, Zamfara, Sokoto and ANC Daily News Briefing
It was easier when the body politic watched the jiggling mammaries on TV and drank beer by the caseload to forget their domestic trifles, but that darn internet went from being a cybernetic version of the Home Shopping Network for fatasses incapable of bestirring themselves beyond their own barcalounger, to something that could actually be used to communicate concepts requiring critical thinking and studied responses. Firedoglake » It’s High Time for Some Truth
Or: he'd take one look at the police, realize the jig was up and I was seriously not someone worth messing with, and he'd clam up, recede into his cowardice, and all-too-compliantly-and-deferentially slink out the door. A Bite-Sized Piece
So picture me, kneeling on my bed, trying to jiggle loose this plug, which is plugged into a six-plug adapter.
In the end, Charles' robotic moonwalk was overcome by Anthony's jiggy jittering.
He told me that he hasn't had nightmares while creating Higashiosaka, but that his parents would tell him stories about Jigoku when he'd been bad as a child. o. Archive 2008-07-01
And liquid CO2 has an unusual quality: It's very jumpy, almost jiggly.
Carry the cup carefully and don't jiggle it, or you'll spill the tea.
Burnley boss Steve Cotterill is still looking for three pieces to complete his jigsaw puzzle.
He jiggled the reigns and clucked at his team of midnight-black horses.
Bore a starter hole for the blade well inside the line; and use a fine-tooth standard (up-cutting) jigsaw blade.
By chance I found a cloud of fish-fry, thousands of transparent proto-fish all facing in the same direction, jiggling on the flow of the current.
There had been their playroom, and in the large cupboard were games - draughts, chess, jigsaws, snakes and ladders and ludo. THE BLACK OPAL
If you build your jig slightly larger than your posts it will slide up and down more easily.
Behind the jiggermast I lighted the fuse of one of my extemporized bombs. CHAPTER XLVII
So the next several openings I had I just insisted that if there was a female and a male, that we would lean toward the female because I had to rejigger what I was dealing with in terms of an executive team. The High Cost of the Gender Gap
We have a jigsaw puzzle with the pieces jumbled up.
It all goes to demonstrate the old adage that statistics can be used to prove anything, provided you jiggle them properly.
Use a couple of small ones as worry beads, jiggling them around in the palm of your hand.
The variety of instruments alone is a testimony to the healthy state of traditional music in the area and tunes types include double jigs, reels, polkas, airs, barn dances, slip jigs and hornpipes.
Youngsters chose the occasion to present their abilities at a jig to the tunes of popular film numbers and they did it with elan.
The latch seems to lock a bit more securely, but it's still possible to jiggle it loose too easily if you fully load it up with a floppy and two hard drives.
A jigsaw puzzle can keep me absorbed for hours.
So it's just a matter of rejiggering our fulfillment process and our packing process.
It's a cover of ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, with some sort of gritty electro jiggery-pokery.
The airport quality inn for one of the perturbing bay sententiously disjointedly hygrometer hedgerow, bristlegrass doojigger, has not truthfully immaculate a hamartia of symphony but that all scouser be resurgent. Rational Review
Now it's a question of putting the jigsaw that has broken apart back together again.
The government is rejiggering some tax assessment methods.
It is like putting together a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces.
Only by delving through minutes in the county archives has the jigsaw been put together.
She cocked her head to one side and jiggled the apple up and down a few times but I closed my eyes and tried to ignore her.
Miller was an armorer for the Army Marksmanship Unit who taught Vickers how to fit a barrel - the old fashioned way - slow, deliberate, no jigs or fixtures, just skillful handwork.
Agar is a seaweed that produces results similar to gelatin, except that it makes jello that is a lot less 'jiggly'. Archive 2005-05-01
In those tearful, tumultuous days following the death of Princess Diana, Bernie Taupin and Elton John rejigged Candle In The Wind (1997) to reflect the nation's grief – although, truth be told, the Fiver was never sure whether the line 'You were the grace that placed itself/Where lives were torn apart' referred to her affairs or something else entirely. Another humiliating defeat
He grasped the toast from the toaster, gently jiggling them in his little hands, as it was still a little hot.
Think of a needle, heated to a glowing red heat, plunged deep into your joints and then jiggled and wiggled about for your amusement.
I don't have the patience to do jigsaw puzzles.
I still remember steeling myself to down the glass of the vile red stuff like a sailor knocks back a jigger of rot gut and then shakes all over.
Never fix your neons, just constantly jiggle the wires until they go on.
A bit of a favourite of mine from the 1910s is ‘oojiboo’, which meant a thingumajig, a whatsits name, something you can't remember the name of.
It's been a huge amount of work and I'm not quite done with it, but once this massive rejig is done, the rest of the rewrite will flow quite nicely, I hope. On rewriting ...
“You tell the jigger-dubber!” answered the cribbage player. The Surgeon's Daughter
The appliances in connection with mining and metallurgy include a five-stamp battery, Blake crusher, automatic machine jigs, an engine pulverizer, a Root and a Sturtevant blower, with blast reverberating, wasting, cupellation, and fusion furnaces, and all other means for reducing ores. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884
I also broil for 1 minute at the end since I can't handle a "jiggly" egg white, but do as you like. posted by Katie at 7:18 AM Archive 2008-08-01
She is wearing a silly hat with toggles on either side, and these dance and jiggle the more aggressive she becomes.
Therefore there was all this jiggery-pokery so that no one actually had to consider whether he had broken the law.
He's on a mission: to revamp the traditional jig and make it something people can relate to today.
This is another piece in the jigsaw that will help us understand the biology of cancer.
Over 1,000 people bopped, jigged, jived and pogoed to some excellent bands.
So the overall effect from some distance away was of a green thread that moved steadily, but jiggled and shook like a sensuous conga line.
It was a hefty hiner, a colossal caboose, a ginormous jiggler, a gargantuan thong-gobbler, a massive boo-tay. Wilberteets Diary Entry
This makes the fruit fall much faster than a light, quick jiggle.
Wujigou, situated at about 10 miles from the southwest of Wushan county - seat in Chongqing city, is a medium size cemetery dated to Han dynast.
This time I don't feel that way so much, the wriggling and jiggling and tickling inside feels more like a reassurance that all is well.
Horan, who jigged in Wimbledon earlier this month, plans to dance another jig outside the Vatican Embassy in the coming weeks.
But these new establishments and the consultants that come out of them are holding onto a tenet that says that not using a jigger is just sloppy bartending. Karl Kozel: Measure For Measure
It’s apparently an image from the troubled James Robinson-written Justice League story, that was originally announced as an ongoing, then downgraded to a miniseries, and has had its title jiggered with slightly here and there. Dear readers, please ogle this underage girl and think about death, won’t you?
Examples: 1. ( One snippet from a recent" intimate portrait" of the first lady: Mr Bush likes to spend his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles, one of which shows the face of his Scotch terrier, Barney.
In the broadest sense, the jiggering of the American vote is one of the more routine facts of political life.
He said: ‘Decisions over Richard and Mark had to be made in order to rejig finances and use them elsewhere but they were the hardest decisions to make.’
Everyone is trying to build their story like a jigsaw puzzle. The Sun
While Karen still jigged to free the snow from her clothes, Bucky ran circles around the group, barking loudly with his high pitched yip.
When used with specially designed jigs, fixed-base routers are great for cutting dovetails.

How To Use Jig In A Sentence

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