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How to use stopgap in a sentence

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The monarchical institutions established in 1814 were no more than a temporary stopgap.
The changes are simply a stopgap measure to prop up a program drowning in red ink.
However, yesterday, the muddy white sheets were also on their way to the dump after being used as a stopgap measure to hold back the floods.
No compromise could be reached before Congress recessed, forcing lawmakers to pass a stopgap measure to continue funding at current levels.
As a stopgap measure, many companies store passwords for these systems in files like spreadsheets and simple databases.
Their idea for mandatory sales targets to manufacture greener cars is good, but only as a stopgap measure.
Even if the situation demands that you do something at the moment, let it be clear to everyone that it is a stopgap measure.
That effort was described as a stopgap until the broader branding effort was set.
The monarchical institutions established in 1814 were thus no more than a temporary stopgap.
Their solution is probably a stopgap, just like the quick fixes the present government give to their monsoon-damaged roads.
Colchester Council has put in a pump as a stopgap solution, but says the real problem is a wrangle over a blocked drain.
Welfare would now be an emergency stopgap between jobs, not a reward that government gives you for being poor for as long as you stay poor.
Global moderation was my first stopgap, because the comments were being swamped with adverts.
We are one small piece of the stopgap of community services trying to avoid a major crisis in homelessness and of lack of affordable accommodation in Lismore.
That notwithstanding, recourse to the doctrinal value of such a text should only be a stopgap measure.
For too long, say campaigners, the private rented sector has been seen as a stopgap for young people between their parents' homes and their own.
But it can also be important to have a stopgap solution without a legal vacuum pending that legislative procedure.
These are also a valuable stopgap to meet demand while you look for permanent solutions for longer-term growth needs.
They use them as a stopgap, which only serves to increase the pressure and the difficulties that these families face.
Yet this solution appears as a potential stopgap in the absence of municipal initiative.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But he knew that they were only a stopgap, only a temporarily shoring of a constantly-eroding dam.
It's a stopgap effort, just to keep things moving until Project Sea-Dredge starts functioning.
She was going as a stopgap to speak at a large meeting to oblige Angelica.
Because Brownlee knows why I'm looking for a cure to replace the stopgap.
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