makeshift
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Things have been especially grim on the 51st Street overpass, where tents, makeshift structures and huge mounds of trash lined the sidewalks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
The book includes photos of makeshift camps, barracks, latrines and other infrastructure, including the photography bunkers from which images of the explosion would be taken.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Photographs on local media show people lying on benches and platforms, using towels as makeshift blankets.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
They take the olive groves and the goats and the summer houses, and they take the makeshift shelters and the fragile new footing of people who had already lost everything once.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
John didn’t speak, he just panted down his fear while the makeshift tea brewed, then took the cup with a nod as I said, “It’ll quiet you.”
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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
Their own makeshifts provide the only bathing and refrigerating facilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was adapted and arranged with the boldest of alterations and makeshifts.
From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling
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