How to Use shoring in a Sentence

shoring

noun
  • No one who reviewed the shoring permit is still employed by the city.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Temporary shoring is in place to bear the weight of car and truck traffic.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • This could be a catalyst for near shoring and more reliable supply chains.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • And if there had not been a shoring up right then, the vast majority of airlines would have filed for bankruptcy.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 31 July 2020
  • The two 30-foot bore pits have since had all equipment and shoring removed and have been completely backfilled.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2021
  • The officials said some revenue ideally would go toward shoring up the state’s finances.
    — Lananh Nguyen, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020
  • First responders built a shoring structure to support the roof above where the truck destroyed an exterior wall.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021
  • And there’s a whole process of friend shoring, reshoring people thinking about getting everything back home, as opposed to leaving it all over the world.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • However the Bridgend tunnels did not need as much shoring support to keep the tunnel intact, a bit of wood salvaged from huts did the trick.
    — Jamie Pringle and Peter Doyle, Smithsonian, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The new station had to be erected around the existing train structure, which dates back to 1897 and required some shoring-up.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2017
  • In the worst case, the shoring will be removed in stages — one direction, then another — so lanes can be replaced and portions of the road can be kept open to traffic.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Over time, teams mark routes in and out of the disaster area, building shoring with boards and other material to prevent debris from falling.
    — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
  • In a world of friend-shoring and regionalization, this ability is something other businesspersons might wish to copy.
    — Radu Magdin, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Another 68 temporary shoring towers support the weight of the building.
    — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2020
  • The makeshift shoring of the condo's structural elements only removed the immediate threat of collapse.
    — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Excavation and shoring is taking place on both sides of Wilshire along with the pouring of concrete for basement walls in areas on the north side of the boulevard.
    — Deborah Vankin Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Partnering with a shelter services company simplifies the process of ally-shoring.
    — Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Either way, the shoring up of Russia's military presence in the Arctic is extensive.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • However, the tunnel was equipped with a ventilation system, water lines, electric wiring, reinforcement of its walls, and shoring.
    — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2020
  • With the start of the school year comes talk of shoring up the ranks of teachers, including those from Black, Latino, and Native communities.
    — Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The stop-work order required a soil engineer review of the site to determine whether any action was needed and to provide recommendations for shoring.
    — Ian Bauer, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2017
  • Airbag lifts, hydraulic tools, pneumatic shoring devices and other instruments were used to rescue four survivors trapped under the rubble, according to the memo.
    — Ray Sanchez and Kevin Conlon, CNN, 22 May 2022
  • Joe Biden, the former vice president and front-runner in the polls, advocates a far more modest shoring-up and expansion of the retirement program.
    — Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • After ceilings deform, the shoring material generally cannot be retrieved from the ice subsurface, and so researchers must leave it behind.
    — Eli Kintisch, Science | AAAS, 13 July 2017
  • At a time when re-shoring has become a hot-button political issue, the announcement is a smart play for Apple, which has famously off-shored much of its supply chain.
    — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 4 May 2017
  • The building has hired a contractor and a professional engineer and shoring work began Saturday morning.
    — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Storm damage might have led to the time when Sawchik and others were desperately repairing a leak below decks while standing in knee-deep water, using mattresses and wood shoring to staunch the flow.
    — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • These are all signs of a shoring-up-the-base strategy by the White House -- which is incongruent while the entire country is fighting a virus that has no political party.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 25 Mar. 2020
  • And with the off-shoring of the textile industry in recent decades, Farm Aid merchandise, including items made of hemp fibers or polyester, is often manufactured overseas.
    — Billboard, 21 Sep. 2020
  • One video, shot by a local contractor, purports to show the concrete slab above an upper level of the Hard Rock sagging to the point of bending temporary posts, called shoring jacks, that supported it.
    — CBS News, 17 Oct. 2019

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