Example sentences for: rigs

How can you use “rigs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Vela Latina: Lateens, old-fashioned Canaries sailing rigs with triangular sails, race against each other on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings at Las Palmas and Puerto Rico on Gran Canaria, between April and September.

  • Beyond San Simeon the rugged coastline begins to relent, and farms and oil rigs take the place of crags and canyons.

  • As it is, the book is greatly bulked up: its wide hanging indentions, large type, ragged-right setting, open spaces make for an attractive package; the illustrations are pretty and, in some cases (various sails), useful, but many of them are gratuitous and purely decorative ( helm, scrimshaw , five pages of different rigs).

  • Indeed, on some occasions his delight in the detail makes it hard to see where the main narrative is leading, although his aim is to show that similar conclusions can be drawn about risk management in food, transport, oil rigs, and other fields.

  • In the meantime, Connery whisks her to his castle on an Inverness loch, where he rigs a cat's cradle of red string to represent the lasers that she won't, at the site, be able to discern.


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