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• The engineer insisted on using stays for the scaffolding.From the entry stay
• These have evolved into rope access techniques which allow workmen to work on high structures without scaffolding.2013, Alastair Buchan, The Atlantic Sailor's Handbook, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry ascendeur
• They're under the scaffolding there in the corner, you can take a look.2009, Ivan Vladislavic, Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked, page 114. From the entry cornish
• A temporary shed, built from scaffolding, provided a covered workspace for a former DRS coach in the process of being reactivated.2025 October 29, James Steward tells Joe Campbell, “Thriving on the stock exchange”, in RAIL, number 1047, page 47. From the entry workspace
• Gelli also expressed skepticism about Calvi's ability to climb out over the scaffolding in his leather-soled city shoes.2013 September 23, Philip Willan, The Vatican at War: From Blackfriars Bridge to Buenos Aires, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 257. From the entry suicide
• Naturally, the men play the set, drumming on the metal scaffolding as they climb around it wearing special grippy gloves.2007 August 31, Melena Ryzik, “Portable Theater (Just Go With the Flow)”, in New York Times. From the entry grippy
• Mr Cook said ‘Look, blind Freddy would know that was for scaffolding,’ and he said, ‘Yes, of course,’.1973, Council of Law Reporting for New South Wales, New South Wales Law Reports, volume 2, page 54. From the entry Blind Freddy
• Roof repair and OSHA roof anchor placement (these are tiebacks and safety line points for people on the scaffolding and are required).2021, “Letter to Owners”, in CNN, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2022, page 2. From the entry osha
• Complementing the value system of luminosity and iconolatry surrounding Hitler, such shadows suggest the imprint of a story-telling agent, of narratorial scaffolding.2010, Aaron Jaffe, Jonathan E. Goldman, Modernist Star Maps: Celebrity, Modernity, Culture, page 161. From the entry iconolatry
• That year four men looked like good material for the expedition: a surveyor, an engineer, a shutterer (concrete moldmaker) and a scaffolding erector.1983, Ranulph Fiennes, To the Ends of the Earth. From the entry shutterer
• A rubber-clad Batmanesque superhero arrives on the scene and performs a series of physical feats, clambering up scaffolding to get to the top of the building.2008, Judie Lännan, editor, How Public Service Advertising Works, World Advertising Research Center, page 49. From the entry Batmanesque
• As we passed through the quadrangle the church was glowing more brightly than a pearl, like a lily in strong sunlight, in spite of all the scaffolding and hugger-mugger.1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 990. From the entry hugger-mugger

Meaning of scaffolding

1. noun A temporary modular system of tubes, bamboo or wood forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures.
2. noun Source code etc. that is incomplete and serves as a basis for further development.
3. noun Any framework or support.

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How do you use scaffolding in a sentence?

Scaffolding is used as a noun. For example: “The engineer insisted on using stays for the scaffolding.”

What is a short sentence with scaffolding?

“The engineer insisted on using stays for the scaffolding.”

What does scaffolding mean?

Scaffolding means a temporary modular system of tubes, bamboo or wood forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures.