makeshift

Example Sentences

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No women or families are thought to be living in these makeshift bases.

From BBC

The path by the river stretches for several miles and on a sunny weekday morning, there were shoppers browsing everything from vintage jewellery to false teeth, all laid out at makeshift stalls.

From BBC

The 37-year-old was scrolling through his phone in a makeshift bedroom upstairs when police stormed the building and chased him into a storeroom.

From BBC

Our little makeshift ark hadn’t washed away in the night lagoon, much to our collective relief.

From Los Angeles Times

This was shot in a little makeshift studio I set up in a boardroom at Netflix HQ in London.

From Los Angeles Times