Sentence examples for a makeshift position from inspiring English sources

Since the left flank of their defensive position had collapsed, Russian forces withdrew to the east, constructing a makeshift position centered around the village of Utitsa.

It's a makeshift situation, and we cannot tolerate makeshift situations.

Beyond John Stones, the City manager is unsure regarding Nicolás Otamendi while his only other senior centre-back is Aleksandar Kolarov, who as a career left-back is a makeshift in the position.

The Gelson's parking lot became a makeshift command post.

As players take their positions, a makeshift bar, the Bramble Inn, is erected.

The musicians were positioned on a makeshift platform in front of that temporary wall, and rows of seats for about 800 people extended almost up to the altar area.

Position the water rocket with the nozzle faced downward onto a makeshift tripod which will leave the rocket positioned with its nose towards the sky.

Tinfoil, marshmallows and shaving foam are used in a makeshift version of Ghostbusters; an adroitly positioned pizza creates a halo of blood behind a dead man's head in Boyz 'n the Hood; giant boxing gloves (recalling the outsized hands Bernal wore in The Science of Sleep) help re-create the boxing documentary When We Were Kings.

Look at the photograph above, of a makeshift rocket launcher at the last rebel fighting position at the edge of town the day after Qawalish changed hands.

They had been obliged to pick a makeshift team in which several individuals were out of position, yet they recorded a victory even if they also had to display a gift for riding their luck.

The place felt like a makeshift morgue.