Sentence examples for makeshift base from inspiring English sources

Schools have been closed, and at least one is being used by the army as a makeshift base.

When the mounted police returned to their makeshift base they were given a huge burst of applause by other officers.

"The phone went dead," Mr. Gubanov said, seated on a chair in the gymnasium used as a makeshift base camp for relatives.

On the roof, Specialist Luis Ortiz, 25, of the Bronx, guarding what had become the company's makeshift base, aimed at a man a few roofs away.

So here in a makeshift base camp, we have a brigade headquarters with few reservists to command and no regular Army commander to support.

The attack on the leadership compound came as United States marines continued building a makeshift base around an airstrip about 80 miles southwest of Kandahar.

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

The troops, members of the 15th and 26th Marine Expeditionary Units, are equipped for sustained operations and may operate from makeshift bases in Afghan territory for days at a time, according to a retired senior officer still close to Pentagon commanders.

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.

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

It's where kids chose sides, set up makeshift bases, picked positions and created their own rules -- and it was all miraculously done without the help of any adults.