Sentence examples for for a makeshift from inspiring English sources

Instead, the United States has opted for a makeshift system of increasing complexity and dysfunction.

Where are the boys scrabbling for a makeshift football in the dust?

That's not a great foundation for a makeshift lineup, but without Randolph, things would be absolutely disastrous.

Only two families received aid last year and have plastic sheeting stretched over new wooden beams for a makeshift roof.

And the empty second-floor room above The Wave's offices was big enough for a makeshift newsroom, where the staff worked until midnight last Thursday.

The teenager fastened pliers around his father's bleeding arm for a makeshift tourniquet, then helped him to the kitchen of the farm house.

In 1984, Mr. Delahoussaye lost his Louisiana training license after a conviction for check fraud, and Ohio later suspended him for possessing syringes and drugs and for using a makeshift electric cattle prod on a horse.

The only thing worth stopping for was a makeshift gasoline station... Travelling in these corners of the Sahara is a risky, unending lottery, perpetual uncertainty.

Oct. 8 IN MY MOTHER'S ARMS Thirty-two children, whose parents have been kidnapped or killed, are cared for in a makeshift orphanage run by a Baghdad student — until the landlord threatens eviction.

The sock is typically used for erosion control, but these creative builders had another idea for it -- a makeshift scarf around the snowman's neck.

And if so, you'll need food, water, duct tape, garbage bags and sand (for using as a makeshift toilet).