How to Use scaffolding in a Sentence

scaffolding

noun
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  • Gronk did pullups on the scaffolding at the main stage.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 1 May 2022
  • But the skeleton isn’t just a lifeless scaffolding for the rest of your flesh.
    — Alex Schwartz, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2020
  • One of my friends thought maybe the scaffolding at the finish had fallen.
    — Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The scaffolding has remained there, marring the streetscape, for years.
    — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
  • Vollmer’s reforms of a hundred years ago are the LAPD’s scaffolding to this day.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • So, the earn-a-book program, well, that’s just the training wheels, the scaffolding through which learning takes place. ...
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The first movie had a bare-bones plot, a skeleton scaffolding on which to hang set piece after set piece.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The section where the cathedral’s spire appeared to be on fire had been wrapped in scaffolding.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 11 July 2024
  • As for the start of the dome project, Johnson was pleased the scaffolding was finally going up.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2023
  • While climbing the scaffolding, Cash said he was maced.
    — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Work on the outside of the dome is marked by the construction scaffolding that surrounds it.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Someone flipped a switch, and a set of cameras mounted on scaffolding began to creep over the rows.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The team from Norman also had to build scaffolding inside the radar.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The primary work for those on the scaffolding, however, is on shoring up the stone work.
    — Barry Adams, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Just two tragedies — the scaffolding collapse and the SouthPark fire — accounted for five of those deaths.
    — Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2024
  • When that scaffolding is abnormal, those bricks can't lay down well – hence the weak bones.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But also triumphant: At long last Parisians can make out the spire behind the scaffolding.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
  • A few days later, Sony took down the set photos showing the scaffolding against the blue background.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The view from the top of the scaffolding that surrounds the steeple of St. Norbert Catholic Church will only be around for another month or so.
    — Barry Adams, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The workers along the scaffolding presented a nod to the trades and French craftsmanship.
    — Glynn A. Hill, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • Helicopter news footage shows a large pile of downed scaffolding and other equipment next to one of the stages.
    — NBC News, 23 July 2021
  • Helicopter news footage showed a large pile of downed scaffolding and other equipment next to one of the stages.
    — sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2021
  • This order has proven to be a much stronger scaffolding approach.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • The work is nearly done, and the temporary scaffolding, Gorton says, should be gone by the weekend.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2023
  • It’s the scaffolding of the character and, accordingly, the movie.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
  • ArtWorks headed the project and Ruthven climbed the scaffolding with student artists to create the tribute.
    — The Enquirer, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Notre-Dame Cathedral sat in the pre-dawn chill like a spaceship docked in the heart of Paris, its exoskeleton of scaffolding lit by bright lights.
    — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Dozens of protesters locked themselves to trucks and bamboo scaffolding to block the road outside the plants.
    — Bloomberg.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • From there, a scaffolding was constructed above the cathedral’s Great Choir.
    — Jordan D. Brown, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • Window air conditioners indoors, outdoor scaffolding for shade Henvill is among the lucky New Yorkers who have someplace cooler to go near home.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024

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