jerry-built
Example Sentences
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In many areas of the island, people are cooking with jerry-built open wood stoves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
After drying his shirts and shorts on a jerry-built clothesline, he presses them with starch and a small iron.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
I pictured Roberts speaking from a wooden study in her home, a jerry-built microphone rigged to an old desk.
From Fox News ● Sep. 18, 2019
All the parts fit without sounding any less casual or jerry-built.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2019
His role would be to transform Lawrence’s ideas and Edlefsen’s jerry-built apparatus into an accelerator that worked.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
