How To Use Jury-rigged In A Sentence
-
Darwin understood that the most convincing evidence for evolution was in the imperfection of nature and the jury-rigged structure of adaptation.
-
If I was writing a story set in ancient Rome, and I used anachronistic terms like "jailbait" or "jury-rigged", I'd get roasted for being sloppy, and rightly so.
Giffen on Continuity | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
-
All patched up and jury-rigged and decaying while you watch.
The Stainless Steel Rat Returns – Chapter 3 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
-
At once monumental and fragile, it brought to mind the jury-rigged shacks constructed from cast-off materials found in every township or slum area.
-
Reynolds, in particular, makes use of this jury-rigged stringer system to alert his readers to articles that would otherwise go unnoticed.
-
Then, with a jury-rigged boat, she slowly made her way to the French owned Kerguelan Islands which were 1200 miles to the west and 2500 miles southwest of The Cape of Good Hope.
-
You look at them anatomically, and they're a hodgepodge of little quirks and jury-rigged adaptations that work.
-
At best, jury-rigged silencers are nearly worthless. At worst, they can particially block the gun barrel causing it to overpressure and explode.
-
But no football club in the land can really be expected to survive long-term at a jury-rigged stadium with a couple of temporary stands squeezed into the corner and supporters separated from the action by the width of a running track.
-
He is closing on the last remaining competitor who, in panic, redoubles his efforts to coax his own damaged, worn out and jury-rigged boat faster, causing it to break up entirely and sink.
-
The mines were intended as anti-personnel devices, jury-rigged claymores.
-
Such jury-rigged arrangements are necessary to deal with an unwieldy coalition where jobs are awarded based on nationality and not merit.
Measuring the Man in Charge
-
It would, however, be unjust to the victims of atrocity to let the perpetrators of the crimes against them go free on such a cynically jury-rigged technicality as ‘victor's justice.’
-
As a domain of research, the de facto mental health system bristles with unsettled questions, conflicting interests, and jury-rigged resolutions.
-
The other figure was female, decked in bluish body armor that looked jury-rigged, as if she changed its dimensions constantly.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
-
During the panel, "Totes 8" tweet author Sarah Lacy, now sporting a blood-caked chainsaw jury-rigged to replace her missing arm, did two things that shocked fellow panelist and New York Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt.
Paul Dailing: Journalism versus the Zombies
-
They jury-rigged the ventilation system in the mine because it was broken.
Think Progress » Don Blankenship in 2009: It’s ‘very difficult’ to obey ‘nonsensical’ safety rules.
-
Regardless of the origins of the terms jerry-built and jury-rigged, the fact of the matter is that the term jerry-rigged was used by American troops to describe the shoddy state of German equipment in the last years of the war.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #139 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
-
I'm half-convinced that the Electricity Board sends people out to turn the power off when it rains, so that the jury-rigged electric boxes, with all their exposed wires, don't get flooded and begin to spark.
-
Dwarfed by her jury-rigged splashboard, Lee had pushed to a handy boat length lead at the finish and will qualify for the A-final over Denmark's Fie Udby Graugaard.
-
The machinery consists of jury-rigged turntables that mechanically drive drumsticks to beat against paint cans, gourds and other noise-making objects.
-
In short, the vertebrate eye is a masterpiece not of design, but of jury-rigged compensations for a fundamentally defective architecture.
-
She was still scarred after her encounters with icebergs so proper repairs to her jury-rigged jib boom were a top priority.
-
She was still scarred after her encounters with icebergs so proper repairs to her jury-rigged jib boom were a top priority.
-
Reynolds, in particular, makes use of this jury-rigged stringer system to alert his readers to articles that would otherwise go unnoticed.
-
Dwarfed by the boat's jury-rigged splashboard, Lee had pushed to a handy boat length lead at the finish and will qualify for the final.
-
the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear
-
But enough of this - even though I'm sitting here with a jury-rigged computer I'm about to get back into the swing of things.
-
Then Lea mentioned that the fridge was on the fritz, so I jury-rigged it again.
-
The mines were intended as anti-personnel devices, jury-rigged claymores.
-
When they became too raucous, and started tearing apart their jury-rigged indoor cardboard nest, we built a coop in the yard.
The Great Guinea Hen Massacre
-
You might want to check with the Muhajadeen for advice on what happens when you try to take on the U.S. military using only personal firearms and jury-rigged explosives.
Think Progress » Flashback: Conservatives Guaranteed ‘ObamaCare Is Dead,’ ‘Pelosi Doesn’t Have The Votes’
-
Would you be smiling if you were riding in a jury-rigged truck that had an emergency evacuation button and a giant tank of highly flammable hydrogen fuel behind the seat?
-
At once monumental and fragile, it brought to mind the jury-rigged shacks constructed from cast-off materials found in every township or slum area.
-
But problems like that can indicate a more serious one - that the database isn't answering the needs of the people it's supposed to serve without jury-rigged changes.
