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How to use makeshift in a sentence

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Lazing on a Saturday afternoon watching TV a few years ago, a tall, bald Brit sat on a rock on a mountain in front of a makeshift braai.
Nasa had provided forceps and astronauts had rigged up a makeshift hacksaw for Robinson to use if the gap-fillers proved difficult to remove.
In the picture above, the entrance door is to the right and a makeshift extension to the front houses the kitchen.
A hundred yards away, a sorry looking BMW 6-series is parked at right angles to a motorway barrier, forming a makeshift roadblock.
Some women started cooking meal under trees while some others gently rocked makeshift cradles hanging from tree branches.
The girls were walking back via the scenic route, which led past the old makeshift campsite.
Section 303 prohibits the use of makeshift fittings or attachments that are load bearing.
Claire reached out to take her arm, shifting carefully on her makeshift lounger.
Spectators take cover under colourful umbrellas or in makeshift tents to protect themselves from the blistering sun.
The Samoans fielded a makeshift line-out, struggled in scrums though they outweighed the divisional side and lacked combination in general play.
I tie mine round my waist as a makeshift sarong and slip it round my shoulders to cover sunburn.
Resourceful gardeners can combine a few discarded window sashes and bales of straw to create a simple makeshift cold frame.
Offered between courses, small food serves as a makeshift tasting menu and has additional virtues that shouldn't go unnoticed, as well.
About 109,000 people are living in makeshift shelters made from blue and white plastic sheeting.
All over town, he says, kids would be hitting golf balls, sometimes with makeshift clubs.
Carers often find their own solutions from locked doors to makeshift alarms to constant surveillance.
The looters are using makeshift boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access.
The children looked at her dully as they used the legs of the gates as makeshift soccer goals.
Several of the pairs had to do push-ups on makeshift courts for losing points.
So gone are the days when cruise travelers had to made do with makeshift facilities.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This galvanised bucket we were using was, I took it, a temporary makeshift.
It seemed best that Jozef be sent back to his home in Slovakia in any makeshift way possible.
All of this makeshift operation of fixed machine guns was changed by the invention of the synchronizing device.
There, on the proving ground, they watched a big transport-plane land on a makeshift airstrip.
The boat was securely fastened in a similar way by cutting a makeshift for a ringbolt in the floor of ice.
Even steam-thawing, as yet untried, but bound to come, he saw would be a makeshift.
And Merrie England swarms with makeshift folk and breakdowns.
Those visits, between 1889 and 1905 were only occasional, a makeshift.
Passed up by his young mother, Jack is saved by a backstreet makeshift midwife, Dr Madeleine, suturing a cuckoo clock on to his chest.
On board, priests celebrated Mass at a makeshift altar in the restaurant car as the faithful prayed in the aisles.
There were a lot of children about and a good many babies, some in makeshift cradles, some tucked up in a rug on the soft brown dry earth.
But it struck that shallow makeshift note that is so often heard in the modem dwelling-place.
Police bomb technicians at the scene found a low-intensity makeshift explosive device with gun powder.
It was a slovenly word, a makeshift for the hard broom of clean thought.
Wounded civilians and fighters were carried to makeshift dressing stations.
It was a makeshift barometer, the advertising gift of a yeast company.
The hack-work is only makeshift, and I don't take it seriously.
James is unable to walk so the other men push him towards the sea in a makeshift cart, overcoming the hazardous terrain with good humour and testiness.
In the latest, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray has attacked the Congress and warned it against trying to remove the makeshift memorial at the ground.
Francesca Anobile was injured with three other girls after crashing on a makeshift sledge in Rother Valley Country Park in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, yesterday afternoon.
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