Makeshift
makeshift (adjective) - temporary, made from whatever materials are availablemakeshift barricades
a makeshift government
a makeshift response to the problem
a makeshift international airport
a makeshift replacement
a makeshift replacement for Suvarnabhumi airport
a makeshift headquarters
a makeshift shelter
a makeshift hut
he spent one more month in that makeshift hut deep in the middle of the jungle hunting for wild pigs
makeshift camps
the canteen was like a thousand others, run by unpaid volunteers and makeshift and bare
the pair of travellers slept in a somewhat makeshift room, where a woman's dress hanging on a rope acted as a partition between two beds
makeshift organisation
a makeshift medical facility
a makeshift clinic
makeshift emergency medical centers
a makeshift morgue
a makeshift bridge
a makeshift bed
done on a makeshift basis
a makeshift photography studio
makeshift repairs to the car
makeshift storage
makshift home saunas
makeshift villages
a makeshift prison
a makeshift parking lot
a makeshift tourniquet
a small boy dangled a land crab on the end of a makeshift fishing rod
a makeshift platform
quickly surrounded by friendly eager lads in makeshift punk clothes
makeshift cinemas
they jeer at our efforts and laugh at our makeshift costumes
the makeshift fence of galvanised iron
makshift barriers to blockade the airport
makeshift premises
she had written to him only twice in his makeshift London digs
he crouched beside an upturned packing case that he was using as a makeshift writing-table
walked to the makeshift podium without a very obvious security presence
a makeshift altar
the makeshift arrangement
the wiring was decidedly makeshift
makeshift gibbets
makeshift coffins
a makeshift scaffold
crossed the market square passing the makeshift scaffold where the bloody corpses of the men executed earlier still lay bound in dirty canvas sheets
Example sentences:
* Some are purpose-built and others are in makeshift premises.
* Given this diversity, it is not surprising that EFTA, with its limited infrastructure, looked a rather makeshift organisation.
* Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies, but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized, not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat, but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations.
* They jeer at our efforts and laugh at our makeshift costumes.
* In a shadowy corner of the cook tent, Ngo Van Loc crouched beside an upturned packing case that he was using as a makeshift writing-table.
* We stopped and built a makeshift shelter to get away, as best we could, from snow that filtered its way through every opening to produce melt water that trickled coldly over us.
* He tied a stone to the makeshift rope and lowered it.
* The vein pulsed in his arm as the makeshift tourniquet drew tighter.
* In the porch of a wooden shack a small boy dangled a land crab on the end of a makeshift fishing rod; it clawed the air, defensive and gaudy.
* Unfortunately, at that precise second, the makeshift platform gave way and Bobby disappeared at the very height of his rhetoric with the chairman, the union secretary, the workers'; deputy and the four constables who by now had infiltrated the platform party.
* The branches of these trees were often used as makeshift gibbets.
* He spent one more month in that makeshift hut, grazing the sheep and gathering hātijaro, bal u and katuka --; wild herbs --; to sell as medicine in Aula.
* Inside the hall I'm quickly surrounded by friendly eager lads in makeshift punk clothes covered in punky badges, who hungrily batter me with curious searching questions.
* He came in an open-necked shirt and walked to the makeshift podium without a very obvious security presence.
* The canteen was like a thousand others, run by unpaid volunteers and makeshift and bare, but the smile of the elderly helper was as bright as her flowered pinafore.
* The municipal railings had been taken away for the war effort and through the gaps in the makeshift fence of galvanised iron he saw a tramp in an army greatcoat sitting on a green bench.
* Nor had she answered messages through friends, and she had written to him only twice in his makeshift London digs, once to say she hoped he was well, and once about some dry cleaning.
* The pair of travellers slept in a somewhat makeshift room, where a woman's dress hanging on a rope acted as a partition between two beds.
* There was a shoebox at the foot of the makeshift altar.
* With an estimated 250,000 refugees from more dangerous parts of Mozambique living in makeshift villages along the protected corridors, the greatest threat appeared to come from the increasingly desperate shortage of food, following the failure of the rains.
* We crossed the market square, passing the makeshift scaffold where the bloody corpses of the men executed earlier still lay bound in dirty canvas sheets.
