How to Use rigmarole in a Sentence

rigmarole

noun
  • He just told us what to do without all the usual rigamarole.
  • We had to go through the rigmarole of installing, registering, and activating the software before we found out it wouldn't work.
  • In any case, Alaskans will have to do this rigmarole again soon.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
  • This rigmarole has grown de rigueur enough to inspire a meme.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
  • So there are all those questions and rigmarole.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
  • There’s none of that confusing swipe-right-or-left rigmarole.
    — Larry Doyle, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2022
  • This has been going on -- this rigmarole, as my mother used to say, has been going on for a long time.
    — Fox News, 29 Mar. 2018
  • This entire rigmarole reflects a deeper failure of the process.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Some collectors are starting to find the rigmarole rather tedious.
    — Hannah Elliottbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2019
  • There is a lot of rigmarole there that is conveniently hidden when positing this as a common sense thing.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Aside from such rigmarole, the Surface Laptop 2 seems worth it.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 3 Oct. 2018
  • The delay comes down to the rigmarole of finding the right building to house the antenna tower.
    — Kevin Warwick, Chicago Reader, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Baggage or no baggage, the rigmarole is nothing short of exhausting.
    — Kinvara Balfour, A-LIST, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Eagles fans, meanwhile, will likely face the usual rigmarole.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • After several hours on set and quite the rigmarole, Carey's guest appearance was nixed.
    — Nardine Saad, latimes.com, 30 June 2017
  • But even those among the affluent chose to completely skip this internet rigmarole.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2021
  • If Superman can just fly backwards and turn back the clock, why bother going through the rigmarole of fighting bad guys?
    — Frank Pallotta and Brian Lowry, CNN, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The first was to allow Page to remove himself from the rigmarole of running the Google business.
    — Wired, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Such a rigmarole — there’s the extra time needed, not to mention the dishes — seems unthinkable for the busiest/laziest of us.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Mutual funds allowed customers to write large checks above some threshold on their accounts rather than the rigmarole of a withdrawal.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 23 Nov. 2025
  • And the rigmarole of international travel is a very good reason.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2026
  • For a company owner, a clean sale is usually preferable to the rigmarole of going public.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2019
  • Again Pixel users get these quickly, Samsung users await the monthly rollout rigmarole that runs for weeks.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The surgery wasn’t meant to keep Aldridge from having to go through the league’s Disney bubble rigmarole, but that seems to be the side effect.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 13 June 2020
  • The same fool-me rigmarole repeated itself shortly thereafter, Smith writes.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Americans have grown used to cops leading their expeditions through the rigmarole of existence.
    — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 31 July 2020
  • Why would Charlotte need to go through all that security rigmarole if Serac was only a hologram?
    — Scott Tobias, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020
  • Some of the usual hijinks ensue, the rigmarole of tense questions about whether the family will find out, and how, and what Esther’s going to do about it.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Instead of that rigmarole, Leininger said her children will see their grandparents via Zoom on Thanksgiving.
    — Carla K. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Newsletter Sign-up What unites this rigmarole is the notion that a great work of art serves as a conduit between the conscious and the unconscious mind.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018

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