Sound sets look good on TV and jerry-rigged up close.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Sugar] Reference

The Feds jerry-rigged a plan and went off half-cocked.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Tabloid]

For the most part, the jerry-rigged light source worked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish] Reference

My little lengths of string have jerry-rigged many a repair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snell-Pym » On being oddly dressed] Reference

Either using their jerry-rigged FTL, or another hybrid: Kara.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

Forty feet of jerry-rigged extension ladder go down the hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day One] Reference

Everything's jerry-rigged, but we're coming along with the repairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tomorrow is Yesterday] Reference

It characterized the Lebanon invasion as heedless and jerry-rigged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unforgiven] Reference

Perhaps, in this jerry-rigged hierarchy, all women are created equal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy Spears: Mika Rottenberg's Squeeze at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art] Reference

I jerry-rigged the disposal into a scrap of 1/2 plywood and wired it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cider Pressin’ 2005] Reference

They were old and jerry-rigged and ran on batteries that were solar-charged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armageddon's Children]

He has not clenched anything, maybe jerry-rigged if you catch my drift. fred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama about to clinch victory, aide says] Reference

No new agency will want to take over what Sound Transit has jerry-rigged together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Eh, the P-I Has a Point] Reference

MESERVE: The system is jerry-rigged, far from perfect, but workable, says Chertoff.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 31, 2006] Reference

The shooter could have used a sound suppressor of some sort, even a jerry-rigged one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alibi]

The story is disgusting, and so is the crew's indifference and jerry-rigged solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Airlines Forces Passenger To Ride In Urine-Saturated Seat - The Consumerist] Reference

And why is it that Marvel has no problem using terms like paddy wagon or jerry-rigged?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #139 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

Robert Link's objection to "jerry-rigged" is based on a totally non-authoritative source.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

"This is jerry-rigged to be what Danny Meyer wanted it to be," protested board member Phil Beer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Community Boards] Reference

They moved the radiator inside the bus to protect it, but the jerry-rigged design didn't hold up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hold Tight, Kids: School Bus Races Rock County Fairs] Reference

Especially ones that have been jerry-rigged to close with a half-mile of mish-mash pieces of wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

By comparison, for "jerry-built" they have examples only back to 1869, and "jerry-rigged" not at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Many people cross-pollinate these two expressions and mistakenly say “jerry-rigged” or “jury-built.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

Yes, it's all at a time of awesome crisis to US-based capitalism, so much of it looks jerry-rigged but so what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [iraq: a riddle] Reference

The courtyard was abuzz with loud announcements blurting out of the hijacked, jerry-rigged amplification system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-13] Reference

They kind of jerry-rigged them together and gave her this heart - this artificial heart that lasted for four months.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2008] Reference

The jerry-rigged taxi rose slowly at first, gained speed and disappeared into the backdrop of black velvet and stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

This is a bit of a contraption that's just been jerry-rigged here to support her ankle which, we know, gets uncomfortable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2009] Reference

Since the strikers had presumably consumed nothing but water for days, the jerry-rigged urinal did not leave much of a stench.    From Wordnik.com.  [ZHAO ZIYANG AND THE STUDENTS] Reference

     She'd come out of a tunnel, or rather, the tunnel just broadened into some jerry-rigged downtown, its sky lit by neon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roanne's Dream] Reference

Parts wore out, it had to be jerry-rigged — it was only supposed to be up there for a year, but it wound up staying much longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Family] Reference

They finally got spacewalkers out there with some jerry-rigged tools wrapped in some tape, because it is after all an electrical device.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2007] Reference

But it was pretty interesting how we sort of jerry-rigged various instruments to try and mimic the diagnostic capacity of a real hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [TV Addict Interview: Mira Sorvino Guest Stars on HOUSE | the TV addict] Reference