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The phrase "a sort of makeshift" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is temporary or improvised, often in a way that suggests it is not ideal but serves a purpose.
Example: "The table was a sort of makeshift solution until the new furniture arrived."
Alternatives: "a kind of temporary" or "a type of improvised".
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But perhaps more intriguingly, they do so in the back seat of a cream-colored vintage Citroën — located a literal stone's throw from Cow Books, just across the Meguro — and serve it out of the rear hatch, which has been converted into a sort of makeshift cafe counter.
The company also demoed the new Cheetah's ability to balance on three legs, using the fourth as a sort of makeshift arm.
The Mod brings the popular AI to the Moto Z, while turning the phone into a sort of makeshift version of the Amazon Echo.
The drone also features new built-in obstacle avoidance for its sides, adding the standard front-facing variety that sends out a near-constant flash of infrared light, serving as a sort of makeshift LIDAR.
The play takes place in a sort of makeshift detention room in Vichy, France, in 1942.
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A: Sort of.
It was the sort of makeshift solution a United manager would employ in the final 20 minutes when a goal was desperately needed.
Some sort of makeshift cushion is useful, to help makes things more comfortable and bedroom-like.
Nicholas's bedroom has become Heyward Sr.'s makeshift office, as well as a sort of memorial for other victims of police brutality.
The lagoon disaster seemed a sort of metaphor for Gaza — overcrowded, lacking in resources, coping with makeshift answers to long-term problems.
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a sort of tentative
a sort of transitory
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a sort of impromptu
a kind of makeshift
a sort of alternative
a sort of substitute
a sort of primitive
a sort of hand made
a sort of ad hoc
a sort of informal
a sort of precarious
a sort of alternate
a sort of transitional
a sort of temporary
a sort of provisional
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