Sentence examples for a more makeshift from inspiring English sources

Most of the time we use a more makeshift system: cruising the surrounding neighborhood and begging homeowners to let us borrow their driveways -- i.e., park our car there -- "just this once," as we inevitably promised.

It is a Britain before brands and labels colonised the consciousness of the young, a more makeshift place of stained concrete walls and rubble-strewn wastegrounds where young people created their own style by mixing and matching: flared trousers and Dr Marten boots.

The contributing authors examine the significance of the buildings at the time they were constructed and attending understandings of sustainable building, contrasting these with present-day notions of architecture and construction as a more makeshift phenomenon.

With his own, single mother (Naomie Harris) fighting a losing battle against drug addiction, Chiron finds a more stable makeshift family in Juan Mahershala Alii), the neighborhood drug dealer, and Teresa (Janelle Monáe), and a sustaining relationship with a self-assured peer named Kevin, played at different ages by Jaden Piner, Jharrel Jerome and André Holland.

More makeshift prayer rooms elsewhere convey a touching dignity not at all dependent on exquisite materials and classical Islamic design.

It has the formal status of a refugee camp and has more developed facilities than the more makeshift camps in Lebanon.

Still, C.D.R.S. is more makeshift than miracle.

More makeshift bases will be built as needed around the country.

While some prayer places are mosques or synagogues, like the Garment Center Congregation and the Millinery Center Synagogue, which cater to workers, most are more makeshift affairs.

Several said they expected to see more makeshift bombs in the United States, where, in certain circumstances, particularly in rural areas, military ordnance disposal technicians could be called to work beside civilian law enforcement agencies.

MORE AFGHAN BASES -- The commander of American forces in Afghanistan said the United States might establish more makeshift bases inside the country, making it easier to dispatch marines and Army soldiers quickly wherever they are needed in the intensifying hunt for leaders and fighters of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.