The phrase "a makeshift one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is temporary or improvised, often created to serve a purpose in the absence of a more permanent solution.
Example: "After the storm damaged our roof, we had to create a makeshift one using tarps and wooden beams until the repairs could be completed."
Alternatives: "a temporary one" or "an improvised one."
To get an idea of what the birdhouse will look like before you make it permanent, build a makeshift one on a table.
Their defence was shorn of Christian Panucci, Philippe Mexes and Marco Cassetti yesterday, and both of Ibrahimovic's goals might have been avoided had the back line not been such a makeshift one, but to focus solely on that would be to ignore the fact that they were also outmanned almost everywhere else.
If you don't have a spray bottle on hand, try to create a makeshift one from an old hairspray bottle or body spray.
It was a superb present but, for some reason, the manufacturers had forgotten to put a photograph of Louis Walsh on it so I had to do a makeshift one from the newspaper.
With a strong economy lacking in recent years, a makeshift one has instead developed.
But the hoist that had been used to carry up the cement broke, officials said, and so workers told investigators that they had made a makeshift one.
You can't puncture a pole and you can improvise a makeshift pole if one snaps.
He lives and works in an open-plan space that's divided into a makeshift home at one end, and a more traditional artist's workshop at the other.
If hinges are not available, use a toy fence or makeshift one instead, perhaps out of pipe cleaners or lollipop sticks.
Pereda washed the wound, which he proceeded to cauterize with a knife heated until the blade was red-hot, then made a dressing with another handkerchief, held in place with a makeshift bandage: one of his old shirts, which he soaked in aguardiente, what little was left, more as a ritual than as a sanitary measure, but it couldn't do any harm.
These days Chang works from a makeshift, wooden one-story corporate headquarters at the back of the construction site for his latest company, Semiconductor Manufacturing International SMICC), in the Pudong district of Shanghai.
