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makeshift

[mayk-shift] / ˈmeɪkˌʃɪft /




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Mygal takes her to the makeshift bed in the bathroom and reads her a story about a night fairy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

For families without vehicles, reaching it can mean muddy tracks, a makeshift bamboo stretcher or a motorcycle - and a day's lost wages.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

He nailed several boards together to create a makeshift coffin for the limb.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

The production, directed by Margaret Shigeko Starbuck, runs with the makeshift energy and comical freedom that this contextual shift allows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Fortunately, some of the crumbled rock had actually formed a makeshift ramp to the roof.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

Afghan refugee and photographer Abdul Saboor poses for Reuters as he takes pictures in a makeshifts migrant camp in Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk, France, December 4, 2021.

From Reuters ● Dec. 8, 2021

Awkward staging makeshifts had to be employed instead, resulting in hundreds of audience members leaving the theatre every night scratching their heads.

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2013

These two are not makeshifts but attacking bowlers for turning tracks.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2011

Britain, which has to live across the Channel from Europe, wants no postwar makeshifts that will loose another world war as soon as Allied occupying forces withdraw.

From Time Magazine Archive

But with even such makeshifts for roads, the planter had his lumbering old coach to which, on state occasions, he harnessed six horses and drove in great style.

From American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur Fisk Gordy




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