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How to use jerry-built in a sentence

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The jerry-built result predictably leaves the show dependent on the songs, the production values, and the performers.
Again due to a housing shortage, the jerry-built houses spread in all directions, especially on the outskirts of Seoul.
The people living in small, jerry-built houses in the adjacent villages were easy victims of the waves.
North Korea has the added attraction that its jerry-built missiles are the primary public targets of America's National Missile Defense.
In contrast, say, to the Museum of Scotland, the new parliament building is going up as fast as a block of jerry-built flats.
The bases are ungainly, jerry-built settings that playfully complement the divalike trees.
The President is not merely proposing to impose his jerry-built system on soldiers captured on the battlefield, however.
Irish football is traditionally ridiculed but it was the side representing Scotland which was lightweight and jerry-built.
Yet none of this means that the show, endearingly old-fashioned as it is, can be dismissed as jerry-built or, worse yet, geriatric.
One friend in the Humvee was already dead from the blast of the jerry-built 90 mm mortar round, and one would die later.
The old jerry-built compilation strung together 27 different computer systems worldwide, most of which couldn't talk with the others.
Despite the work's jerry-built appearance, it exuded an internal order that is both erudite and sophisticated.
Its narrative feels at once perfunctory, jerry-built and weirdly contrived.
This late spasm of daring feels jerry-built.
Schumann's indecision shows up in the jerry-built construction.
All the electricity was a jerry-built fire hazard.
The character of British society was drastically altered as people flocked from farms and villages to find wage-earning employment in overcrowded, jerry-built and thoroughly unsanitary towns and cities.
The lower half of a duplex apartment on a shabby Montreal street, dark as limbo, jerry-built fifty years ago and going off keel ever since.
This jerry-built system has allowed tremendous variations in levels of provision of regulated ECLC, provincial standards, forms of provision and auspice.
A literal sweatshop, this jerry-built structure is at once concrete, fantastical, and metaphorical, its ricketiness no contradiction of the grinding realities it indexes.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A work of beauty which cannot stand an intimate examination is a poor and jerry-built thing.
The house was new but jerry-built, reeked of drains, and swarmed with vermin.
From her way of saying it, you would have supposed it had been jerry-built last week.
See the finest position in the neighbourhood occupied by a jerry-built Moorish nightmare?
Why shouldn't creeds totter when they are jerry-built creeds?
It was, I perceive, a jerry-built scheme, run up at short notice.
I should say it was built on contract, and jerry-built at that.
Jerry-built shanties with rattletrap aircars grounded around them.
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