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
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
In fact, at that moment, hundreds of people, detained migrants, were languishing in a jerry-built cage underneath the Paso del Norte International Bridge.
From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019
There is no hint of shabby desperation in these effects, of the sense of a spook house jerry-built over a well-worn drama.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2016
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
