jury-rigged

How To Use jury-rigged In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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
• 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.