How To Use Scaffolding In A Sentence

Scaffolding has been erected around the tower and repair work will start next week.
First, they were creeping molds that slithered forth from the ocean onto land...and then they stood upright, supporting their globby substance by means of calciferous scaffolding, and finally they built machines. Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)
The only exciting thing that happened all day was when the top came off the scaffolding tower, unbalanced by about a hundredweight of slate which had been injudiciously stacked all on the same side of its centre of gravity.
Haven't these pillocks ever seen scaffolding before?
When Julius entered, Michelangelo - like Zeus with his thunderbolts - hurled planks from the scaffolding down at the Holy Father, routing him from the chapel.

The fields between the villages of north London were filled with scaffolding for buildings to house a new breed of commuter. Times, Sunday Times
The decorative plasterwork bubbled and decayed; ceilings were held up by scaffolding. Times, Sunday Times
The formwork on this system is hung on the scaffolding so that it can be easily retracted and opened.
We journeyed past rows of rickety buildings with bamboo scaffolding and lines of washing before arriving in the modern part of the city. For Love or Money
For example, major ampullate silk, a very tough silk with a tensile strength comparable to Kevlar, is used for the primary dragline or scaffolding of the spider's web.
Cocooned in scaffolding and planks, Manchester's majestic John Rylands Library is undergoing a facelift that will see it restored to its original glory, albeit with some modern touches.
Against a mesh of scaffolding and discarded signs, a man in dusted Army and Navy store clothing and work boots starts brushing the stage.
The man at the information desk pointed towards some scaffolding. Times, Sunday Times
The stage resembled an oblong squash court with seating perched precariously on scaffolding above the set.
Firms are sponsoring the scaffolding on buildings undergoing restoration, then exploiting a legal loophole allowing advertising to be hung from the structure. Times, Sunday Times
Police said that a firework had set fire to netting on scaffolding next to the church which was soon extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
Some 200 workers were on site when the 50 tons of steel scaffolding and wooden walkways crashed to the ground. The Sun
Researchers at National Jewish Health have discovered a promising strategy for destroying the molecular scaffolding that can make Pseudomonas bacterial infections extremely difficult to treat in cystic fibrosis patients, wearers of contact lenses, and burn victims. Monday
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Inspectors will look at whether the correct equipment is being used, work platforms are properly installed and scaffolding is securely fitted.
And because the whole subfloor is mud, and not capable of supporting scaffolding, workers had to lay out steel beams, supported at the pier positions, and erect the scaffolding on the beams.
Around it was a scaffolding of steel and aluminum, acrawl with tiny figures that manipulated minute, blue-white welding flames. The Space Merchants
Their names had been etched into the glass but the pane was shattered by hooligans who climbed onto scaffolding and kicked in the windows.
In Fujian, workers are carving roads into red clay hills, scaling bamboo scaffolding, hauling piles of stone.
One of these, the "araba," is an heirloom from their old Tartar ancestry, and is only an exaggerated ox-cart with seats, and a scaffolding of poles around it. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
The oil company began as a contractor for larger companies, servicing pipes and building scaffolding, before expanding into exploration.
A building worker is recovering after falling 25 feet down an unfinished lift shaft after scaffolding gave way.
Usually the hoddies would start half an hour earlier in the morning so that when we arrived the scaffolding was loaded with bricks and mortar.
Construction work is still being completed on the other floors and scaffolding still surrounds the building.
Finally, any definition of scaffolding needs to highlight the fact that this kind of interaction is a site for learning opportunities, and is not simply a way of modelling, supporting, or practising interaction. S is for Scaffolding « An A-Z of ELT
For routine maintenance activities, all scaffolding shall be inspected daily or before each work shift.
Materials have included 28,000-ft of scaffolding weighing 72 tonnes, 300 kg of plaster and 880 litres of pink and cream paint.
The unsightly cast-iron gasometer that gave its name to a hairpin bend is long gone, the train station whose ticket office overlooked another 180-degree corner has been replaced by a luxury hotel, and the famous Tabac is buried during race week under the latticed scaffolding of a temporary grandstand. Monaco grand prix: The race where heroes are made
The walls rotate around me and further on I can see what looks like an angled metal structure, kind of like metal scaffolding, but with an angled purposeful design.
I verily believe the HIAB loader lost power since the crane/arm fell down dropping the scaffolding boards.
– Encased in scaffolding and bursting from a sweater they are the very apex of temptation. What a Let Down
This will involve re-routing Great Western trains and scaffolding and safety nets being attached to the viaduct while work is carried out.
The theoretical framework of instructional scaffolding, based on Vigotsky's concept of approximate development area, is apposed to Piajet's structuralist cognition which emphasizes learning process.
We were having building work done and he hopped on to the scaffolding and flew over the wall. Times, Sunday Times
The statue is currently surrounded by scaffolding.
During construction, these planks were suspended on scaffolding while concrete floors and columns were poured around them.
The core enzyme consists of a 65 kDa scaffolding protein known as A subunit tethering a 36 kDa catalytic C subunit PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
He paused when his eye fell on the chrome scaffolding against the wall, his mouth curling in a derisory sneer. BETTER THAN THIS
An analysis of scaffolding effects and endocytosis is outside the scope of this study.
The provision of plant and scaffolding will usually be subject to negotiation and may be supplied by either the builder or the subcontractor.
Years of moans and groans about the setting of the memorial came to an end this week as scaffolding was removed to reveal the new wall.
Peter Gray, a psychologist at Boston College, points out that older kids are uniquely able to provide support -- often referred to as "scaffolding" -- for younger kids in mixed-age play. Alfie Kohn: Five Not-So-Obvious Propositions About Play
In making their nests, the birds cement a scaffolding of tiny twigs together with a sticky substance which has been variously identified as coming from regurgitated seaweed, such as agar-agar, or as being simply the birds' own saliva.
The fourth side is formed by a rickety tower of scaffolding poles, planks and ladders built around an ancient oak. Times, Sunday Times
Solutions were also needed to solve problems of working inside the old building, such as setting wooden letterboxes into the walls to slide scaffolding poles inside, as these could not be brought through the front door.
We watched the parade from our perch on the scaffolding.
Designed by Brunelleschi and built without the use of scaffolding, the impressive dome atop the cathedral dominates the city's skyline.
Nearby landlords, meanwhile, took the opportunity to erect scaffolding on their roofs so the wealthier viewer could get a better look. Times, Sunday Times
Tacked on to the scaffolding of the unproduced play, Cap’n Simon Wheeler, The Amateur Detective, this enigmatic, dream-ridden fantasy involves a young man who travels three days on horseback from Kentucky to a small Missouri town with the intention of shooting to death a cousin, who is described as sappy, sentimental, giddy, and thoughtless, to settle a family feud. Mark Twain
Their bras alone would need scaffolding. The Sun
The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer - all worked painfully upon the young man's already overwrought nerves.
Scaffolding has been erected around the tower.
The top men did the scaffolding - with their poles and their ledgers.
Thus, although there was scaffolding of instruction, the teacher was not at all reluctant to provide additional input when students needed it. Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers,
Finishing touches installation stained glass windows drum octagon removal scaffolding exterior interior edifice interior calcimining dome drum octagon tuckpointing cleaning floodlighting entire structure completed synchronizing closing weeks glorious twelvemonth annals Holy Faith. Dawn of a New Day
The junk of scaffolding at the bottom of the photo is actually the theatre itself - it's actually a self-contained unit within the building.
The Emperor's palace was a tiered tower of scaffolding covered with tubing and construction materials, and the costumes looked deliberately bizarre: the Drummer (Jamie Van Eyck) had a tiny drum with enormous drumsticks; the magenta-haired Soldier Girl (Kathryn Skemp), who falls in love with the Soldier (Julius Ahn) after the two meet on the battlefield and are unable to kill each other, sported a petaled camouflage dirndl held up by crossed bandoliers. Writing Death's Gentle Aria in the Face of Despair
The station on Drove Road currently resembles a building site, after work-men erected scaffolding around the 44-year-old tower.
He also said that he could see no justification for the scaffolding having been erected in the way that it was. Times, Sunday Times
During the early hours of Sunday vandals overturned the towering scaffolding outside the school, causing flags and poles to crash into the road.
It has been created out of scaffolding and is clad with plywood covered in a mesh fabric.
Information technologies have become instruments of mind expansion and sensorial scaffoldings that increase and augment our capacity to process greater amounts of information, allowing us to extract richer gradients of meaningful data about the world and our experience. Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity
A bunch of Maryhill urchins had a splendid view of proceedings from the scaffolding.
In a single night, the scaffolding was removed from the facades, the steamrollers left the streets, and the earthmovers departed from the parks.
Scaffolding, useful if you're installing a large skylight, can be rented from tool supply companies.
Away from the noise and scaffolding on a harbour side balcony next to a tiling team Graeme described the vision.
The villagers could not explain why scaffolding was required to collect bird droppings from the floor of the cave, and they were not aware of the swiftlets and their unique saliva nests.
Workers wear special harnesses and stand on carefully constructed platforms, supported by a scaffolding system that is almost as complex and labyrinthine as the bridge itself.
To hold the ABtek modules in place they are both stapled together among themselves and held by special scaffolding to keep the walls straight and leveled until the inside of the modules is filled with concrete or any other liquefiable composite material. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
And no one was hurt at Boston's Fenway Park today when temporary scaffolding collapsed.
It constructs and spends its entire growing life in a tangled scaffolding of threads spun across the surface of the rock wall. Caves and Cave Life
In the past, stained glass could only be inspected if scaffolding was erected and this was costly and time-consuming.
Only a blind musician, on the scaffolding of the orchestra, went on playing a shrill tune on his clarionet. The Magic Skin
Adding raunch to the regal scaffolding, while the regal scaffolding adds a touch of class to the raunch. Times, Sunday Times
Old Yankee Stadium, at left, is shrouded in scaffolding and left silent while the the new Yankee Stadium, right, is basking in the late afternoon sun on the right and helping to play host to the 2009 World Series. Dealing with the death of old Yankee Stadium
Foreign arrivals last summer were obliged to duck under scaffolding and sidestep earsplitting riveters and sandblasters in order to reach a makeshift passport control desk.
Viewed from a distance through binoculars, the farm buildings were hidden in places by scaffolding and there were heaps of building materials visible all over the farmyard.
Nowadays they need proper industrial scaffolding. The Sun
There are concerns scaffolding could be used to construct gallows from which protesters would be suspended on motorways to halt traffic.
The scaffolding has been put up in readiness for the repair work on the building.
The lighting is blue, underfoot the floor is black and the scaffolding glints in the twilight.
Until she and Antony lay fully embalmed within it, an aperture would remain high on the door wall, reached by scaffolding made from withies; a winch and a long roomy basket enabled persons and items to be conveyed in and out of the interior. Antony and Cleopatra
The statue is currently surrounded by scaffolding.
These have made a comeback in recent years, though scaffolding planks from a local builders' merchant will also do. Times, Sunday Times
The work will require scaffolding the entire building including the spire but services to the public will not be interfered with as almost all of the work will be external.
While building work is under way space around the building is needed for scaffolding and skips.
Those who arrive at Thekla can see little of the city, beyond the plank fences, the sackcloth screens, the scaffoldings, the metal armatures, the wooden catwalks hanging from ropes or supported by sawhorses, the ladders, the trestles.
Were these holes cut to support wooden beams for scaffolding?
And though it is still clogged with scaffolding, shipwrights, and a half-dozen cherry pickers, the promenade is already expansively dramatic.
Orange scaffolding then appeared, looking much like oversized staples, either stem bolted into a brick.
But the construction work went ahead anyway - with the loss of the lives of two workmen when scaffolding collapsed and the stone they were working on fell on them.
France holly cuttings, scaffolding shade requirements to reduce transpiration and direct sunlight seedbed.
The fourth side is formed by a rickety tower of scaffolding poles, planks and ladders built around an ancient oak. Times, Sunday Times
Scaffolding was erected around the building and the roof sections bolted on and weighted down with 80 tons of sand, suspended in two-ton bags.
Inspired by the scale and appearance of an industrial dock, the huge eruptions of scaffolding tower over you like a quayside full of rusty cranes. Times, Sunday Times
Cytoskeletal organization and reorganization also plays a prominent role as scaffolding for proteins subserving membrane excitability.
Country houses, places of worship and public baths are thought to be most vulnerable to the scarcity of scaffolding. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps when all this is finished, she says, gesturing at the clamorous cement mixers and the spider's web of scaffolding, she will go away and give herself time to salve her sorrow, time to look back on precious memories, time to reflect.
Sweeping past in endless succession were a forest of smoke-stacks, cooling-towers, pylons, transformers, scaffolding, flood-light towers and railway signal gantries.
In his little studio in Mount Vernon, which is perpetually hidden by scaffolding and a not-so-fine layer of dust, Patrick paints crazy and fabulous comic-inspired women. Archive 2009-05-01
So he created a temporary scaffolding to get one piece of the puzzle going.
Inspired by the scale and appearance of an industrial dock, the huge eruptions of scaffolding tower over you like a quayside full of rusty cranes. Times, Sunday Times
He had his back towards the wall when a sudden gush of wind smashed the scaffolding onto the wall.
They used masses of wooden scaffolding, and pulleys operated by treadwheels and cranked round by labourers or animals.
The prestige city centre office block has been shrouded in scaffolding and green netting for more than a year as the two huge firms did battle.
The scaffolding outside the window of his office at Edinburgh's St Andrew's House brings to mind the phrase ‘Work in progress - wear a political hard hat’.
Investigators examining the scaffolding collapse have focused on whether it was human or mechanical error that resulted in the disconnection of a metal tie that secured the platform to the building.
Country houses, places of worship and public baths are thought to be most vulnerable to the scarcity of scaffolding. Times, Sunday Times
The provision of plant and scaffolding will usually be subject to negotiation and may be supplied by either the builder or the subcontractor.
But he felt that students would not be able to deploy these skills without the scaffolding of data.
Years of moans and groans about the setting of the memorial came to an end this week as scaffolding was removed to reveal the new wall.
She has had to wring out water from insulation in her loft, endure water trickling down the walls in her hall and scaffolding around her chimney.
We had scaffolding instead of banisters for three months, and we were living here.
One way the new nanotubes can be customized is by using them as scaffolding for other materials.
The first step is to prop up the fire-damaged building with safety scaffolding.
The dark silhouette of an imposing dome, still covered with scaffolding, can be seen through a snowstorm.
Even builders perched on scaffolding don't do it anymore.
More macabre was the tailor's dummy strung up from a noose dangling off scaffolding on a building being demolished on Micklegate.
This artful separation of what was actually perfectly consistent behavior into bogus antipodes is why My Life's therapeutic grid is pure scaffolding, about as meaningful as the little backdrop mantras (for example, "Strong American Communities") that Clinton's White House made a staple of presidential speeches. Policy Wank
Where they saw scaffolding and cement-mixers, I saw a light-filled heaven.
Everybody was agreed that it is good practice for the roofers, working on a roof of this sort, to work either from scaffolding, or on scaffold boards, or from access stagings which were placed on the roof.
The answer is that these industrial gums provide the scaffolding for commercial gluten-free processed foods. Times, Sunday Times
At one point they feared that it would need external scaffolding. Times, Sunday Times
The idea is that with specific provision (scaffolding) and mediation (adult guidance, especially through language) children can learn at a far greater speed than otherwise.
In York, clubbers dressed in party finery mixed with older couples and families with young children outside the Minster, cleared of its scaffolding for the first time in more than a decade especially for the occasion.
Scaffolding has been erected around the tower and repair work will start next week.
He built scaffolding by running long 2x4s once through a planer so they were just thin enough to be passed through the basket-like structure at whatever level needed.
It was all Hollywood stagecraft, including fabric banners, painted cardboard shipping tubes and what was reportedly all the aluminum scaffolding west of the Mississippi.
At 29 Howard's Avenue the builder's skip was still outside and the rusty scaffolding blinded its shabby windows.
Both churches, parts of which are thought to date back to Saxon times, are now surrounded by scaffolding.
The area was immediately cleared and scaffolding erected to enable stonemasons to examine the cause of the problem and assess what needs to be done.
Usually some part of college is swathed in scaffolding, or blocked off. Promised Pictures « Tales from the Reading Room
His most significant move, though, was when he was persuaded to buy a lossmaking scaffolding business. Times, Sunday Times
Several months later she was arrested for climbing the scaffolding and smashing a window at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square.
Even had he the benefit of the scaffolding erected behind Firhill's western end, it is doubtful whether he would have been able to do the needful.
A metal scaffolding framework was visible through the window frames, based on an unwalled area of the building, probably the garden the executive would be looking out on while working.
I travelled there specifically to see this clock, only to find it draped in scaffolding! San Marco Clock Tower, Venice
But woe betide Alexander and all rareripe Bostonians who mistake the scaffolding for the edifice. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
Then he wanted to make a mortar, so he welded a steel plate onto the end of a scaffolding pipe.
Inspired by the scale and appearance of an industrial dock, the huge eruptions of scaffolding tower over you like a quayside full of rusty cranes. Times, Sunday Times
Scaffolding is being put up so stonemasons can begin work on the tower and spire in about three weeks.
I think the cause of why there really isn’t “scaffolding” in ELT is because a “language” is not “content knowledge”. S is for Scaffolding « An A-Z of ELT
The east side of the Northwest Heroon after the removal of the temporary scaffolding, the south side up to the level below the stylobate of the upper naiskos, and the west side of the socle up to the stylobate Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 4
The scaffolding reaches to the top of the cupola that adorns the roof giving the builders a perch almost 100 feet up.
For a while a confused babblement arose from the ruins, and then the universal attention came back to Graham, perched high among the scaffolding. When the Sleeper Wakes
In some cases there have been reports of scaffolding poles being thrown through windscreens of fire engines, crews being attacked by concrete blocks, being shot at and equipment being tampered with.
Country houses, places of worship and public baths are thought to be most vulnerable to the scarcity of scaffolding. Times, Sunday Times
They cling to new beliefs of equity earned and shared in harmoniousness of friendship, breaking ground where their upbringing would sunder fragile and rare scaffolding. Archive 2008-04-01
It was absolutely impossible without a specially constructed scaffolding, and positioning it would have encountered great obstacles. EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
The second was a more ambitious plan where Google would essentially create a scaffolding on the web to lubricate social activities. In the Plex
The removal of temporary scaffolding allowed us to take photographs of this very impressive socle and enhanced the beauty of the whole structure. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 4
Firms are sponsoring the scaffolding on buildings undergoing restoration, then exploiting a legal loophole allowing advertising to be hung from the structure. Times, Sunday Times
Outside, workmen on scaffolding grind and scrape at our walls, breaking in by the millimeter and decibel.
Inspired by the scale and appearance of an industrial dock, the huge eruptions of scaffolding tower over you like a quayside full of rusty cranes. Times, Sunday Times
This involved some building work and scaffolding. Times, Sunday Times
Some of it splattered on to the ground, some of it soaked the scaffolding but the most of it ran flowed thickly down Peter's back, saturating his clothes.
Ashtead, which hires out equipment such as forklifts, rose 9.8 to 176.2p after buying a US scaffolding provider for around $38m. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
For example, in many types of breast surgeries, either following mastectomy, mastopexy (breast lift) or body contouring procedures, there is a significant need for scaffolding technology that can immediately support a geometrically complex implantation site at the time of surgery, and provide the body both the time and structure necessary for optimal healing. Medgadget
Removing the rusty metal presented us with a somewhat unstable-looking climb down of about 4m complete with plenty of scaffolding shoring.
The arcaded splendour of the Piazza del Duomo seemed to effortlessly shrug off the scaffolding in place when we visited - testament to the awesome power of the place.
What makes him unique is his willingness to construct his myths on a scaffolding of calculated untruths.
Removing the rusty metal presented us with a somewhat unstable-looking climb down of about 4m complete with plenty of scaffolding shoring.
There were big deals just beyond me, zooming in then out then in again in a mad giddy rush while I let a guy rope down from the scaffolding I'd constructed as a kind of house.
Eight scaled scaffolding outside the building. The Sun
A signal is then produced indicating that the structure is complete and the scaffolding protein detaches to be used again in making other virus tails.
Everything, from the near-new engine to the positively radioactive dunny, came off as we settled into the shed, set up scaffolding, and got together all the tools and equipment. True Spirit
The Skyway Builder is a code generation and scaffolding tool for accelerating the development of Spring Web applications.
The fields between the villages of north London were filled with scaffolding for buildings to house a new breed of commuter. Times, Sunday Times
High, spidery scaffolding buttressed its walls on both sides, and though there was no one working now, Pres could see pails and rags scattered along the planking.
Firms are sponsoring the scaffolding on buildings undergoing restoration, then exploiting a legal loophole allowing advertising to be hung from the structure. Times, Sunday Times
He told me of his fear of heights, and of his job on the QE2, when he worked on scaffolding two hundred feet above the dock. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
The man was freed from the scaffolding by 4pm and was today recovering in hospital.
Thus, although there was scaffolding of instruction, the teacher was not at all reluctant to provide additional input when students needed it. Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers,
Visitors have complained about the scaffolding that shrouds half the castle.
Inspired by the scale and appearance of an industrial dock, the huge eruptions of scaffolding tower over you like a quayside full of rusty cranes. Times, Sunday Times
For most of that time, only the cocked hat atop Nelson's head was visible above the thick green brattices attached to the scaffolding.
It is also excellent for use in temporary facilities such as scaffolding, staging, job shacks and other job-site structures that are not normally protected against fire.
A worker was seriously injured on Friday after falling 30 ft from scaffolding outside a house in Melksham.
The scaffolding must provide clear and unimpeded access to all areas of the wall or surface to be plastered.
These have made a comeback in recent years, though scaffolding planks from a local builders' merchant will also do. Times, Sunday Times
The scaffolding from a building that was being repaired from Ivan was sheered off and tossed into a nearby visitor center.
A 19-year-old man has died after falling from a roof on to scaffolding at a building site in Colchester.
Miller described the formwork and scaffolding as sub-standard and ‘third-world’.
As a building material, bamboo is still commonly used today in Hong Kong in two main ways: as scaffolding for construction and for small temporary structures.
The answer is that these industrial gums provide the scaffolding for commercial gluten-free processed foods. Times, Sunday Times
'Scaffolding' to regenerate lost or damaged bones and tissues, even stop age clock New type of 'excitonic' computer a step closer to commercial viability SIM 2009 study: Boosting productivity and cutting costs top IT concerns ZDNet News - News Page One
As more and more people crowded on to wooden and steel terraces which resembled nothing more than glorified scaffolding, the structures began to sway, and stresses were placed on steel joints which they were not designed to bear.
They say the weather had made it difficult to gain access to the site and scaffolding too dangerous to stand on.
The main shelving unit he made with scaffolding left over from the construction of the house. Times, Sunday Times
He could not climb down the scaffolding, for it did not reach to the ground — it was built on joists stuck into putlog holes in the wall. The Pillars of the Earth
The court was told Francis claimed he had seen a couple of people with machetes or metal scaffolding poles.
Outside, workmen on scaffolding grind and scrape at our walls, breaking in by the millimeter and decibel.
Mr Hatton said Cowell had been caught on video throwing missiles at police and was seen to be involved in making a barricade out of scaffolding as a crowd jeered.
The left side of the basilica, still encased in scaffolding as artisans from all over Italy work untiringly to complete the restoration, opened again on November 28th 1999.
The monkeys squabble on the erected scaffolding. Times, Sunday Times

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