Sentence examples for rig from high-quality English sources.

• Out of the water, the oil rig looks long and squat.

• The STABO Extraction Harness, or STABO rig, was one of the most used.

• The Deepwater Horizon BP oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

• The Horizon had two ways to defend against oil and gas surging to the rig.

• For a start, it takes a lot of energy to move a rig.

• Cuadrilla, an energy firm, has already been spooked into shutting down its rig.

• Officials said about 40 of the people on the rig worked for different companies.

• The rig count in Wyoming fell from 30 rigs in March to just two rigs in early June.

Use rig in a sentence.

• BP, to whom the rig was leased, has paid $61.6 billion in fines, cleanup costs, and compensation.

• The Maldives and Malaysia are far from the only countries that rig elections in Asia—indeed more rig them than not.

• The oil drilling rig, called Deepwater Horizon, is positioned about 50 miles southeast of Venice, La., in water nearly 5,000 feet deep.

• When China hauled an oil-exploration rig into Vietnamese waters, Vietnam eventually managed to get the rig to withdraw.

• The driver of that rig remains in federal custody, charged with illegally transporting immigrants for financial gain, resulting in death.

• It would be much more efficient for the energy company that owns the rig to process and analyze on a server much closer to the rig, Nagar said.

• That evening, hours after the meeting ended, a bubble of methane gas blasted out of a well of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, in the Gulf of Mexico, setting the rig on fire and killing eleven men.

• This background, he argues with evident disgust, gives him special insight into the way wealthy elites buy off politicians and hire high-priced lawyers and accountants to rig the tax system — just as, he claims, they rig elections.

rig sentence examples

• “We’ve had hurricanes and fires on the rigs, but I can’t remember that we ever had this type of explosion and definitely not on this type of rig,” said Billy Nungesser, the president of nearby Plaquemines Parish, where some oil rig workers live.

• There was the "basher bear" to ram into stunt people and push actors to the ground, a riding rig for Dafne Keen (Lyra) to sit on, a backpack rig for her to get on top of someone's shoulders, and a four-legged fiberglass standing puppet to show a polar bear's height.

• Yet when Nux’s rig crashes, Max wanders the desert, finds Furiosa and her rig, attempts to commandeer it, but quickly learns that his only chance for survival is to make common cause with her as she flees fast convoys of more imposing weaponry dispatched from the Citadel—and he doesn’t at all mind sticking it to his former captors.

• One video relates a sixteen-month effort to dig a well: a homemade well rig proves too difficult to use, a commercial rig arrives with a defective part, a hydraulic pump breaks, rain and cold weather hinder progress, the plastic casing intended to line the well is too wide, a narrower replacement gets stuck partway down, and on and on.