Sentence examples for makeshift barrier from inspiring English sources

He created a makeshift barrier around the bodies.

The embassy building here in the Vietnamese capital, which fronts directly onto the sidewalk, was surrounded by a makeshift barrier of parked trucks and other vehicles.

Thousands of placard-wielding and chanting protesters, who had approached the ministry of defence in the Abbasyia district, were blocked en route by tanks and hundreds of soldiers stationed behind a makeshift barrier of metal frames and barbed wire.

Mr. Haddad, who was behind the Islamist lines, said the detentions began after Brotherhood leaders ordered their members to build and push forward a makeshift barrier to clear a space in front of the palace.

The makeshift barrier quickly became a symbol of the geographical intimacy of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, and of the precarious nature of life on the seam of the conflict.

There's that patch of melted snow on the grass again, that plane tree, that high shot of the big crossroads, that long view down a deadly boulevard, with a makeshift barrier in the distance, obstructing the sightlines of the snipers in the distant hills.

Communities across the country have been using sandbags and makeshift barriers to protect their homes and businesses from the floodwaters.

The lowly sandbag has improbably -- and seemingly eternally -- remained the back-breaking brick of choice for anyone in a hurry to erect makeshift barriers during flood season.

Updated at 4.16pm BST 4.04pm BST Battle for Homs Residents of the besieged districts of Homs have made more pleas for help as they erect makeshift barriers to try and halt the advance of government troops.

Makeshift barriers — including a water-filled rubber tube eight feet high and a third of a mile long — help keep water away from the vital buildings, including the training center, the administration building and a security building.

Nonetheless, the general had assumed control of security for the protesters, placing his own black-shirted paramilitary fighters at entrances in the makeshift barriers around their encampment, and he claimed the loyalty of a small but intense group of protesters.