Sentence examples for makeshift checkpoints from inspiring English sources
The roads in western Libya are clogged with makeshift checkpoints.
He described civilians carrying rifles or knives, creating their own makeshift checkpoints.
In what was once a smart area, burned cars formed barricades blocking the roads with makeshift checkpoints.
At makeshift checkpoints local Hizbullah members and allies from Amal, Lebanon's second Shia movement, searched belongings and screened identity cards.
They searched cars and checked identity cards of people passing through makeshift checkpoints made of tyres and concrete blocks.
Hundreds of fighters loyal to Mr. Sadr could be seen on the streets of Sadr City, guarding makeshift checkpoints fashioned from burning tires and large pieces of wood.
His wry humor was more than many crossing the makeshift checkpoint could muster, though.
Flush with their victory in Brega, rebel fighters pushed 25 miles to the west and established a makeshift checkpoint.
Soldiers for a government crumbling but still forceful had taken me and three fellow journalists captive at a makeshift checkpoint.
In Oruzgan Province, insurgents at a makeshift checkpoint pulled a district leader out of his vehicle and killed him on Tuesday, the provincial police said.
They have taken the TV people prisoner," Mohammad Abougabha, a 22-year-old pilot-turned-rebel, explained at a makeshift checkpoint, before the journalists escaped.
