Sentence examples for makeshift construction from inspiring English sources

The bathroom where Blanche takes the long, luxurious soaks that so enrage Stanley is a makeshift construction inside the main room.

Mr. Fowle said the center had an undeserved bad reputation, that its original design, by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, worked well until it became corrupted by pop-up food-service kiosks and other makeshift construction.

With military garrisons come almost casual damage — from foot and vehicular traffic, makeshift construction, digging for bunkers and sandbags, the use of open latrines, graffiti and more — as well as the risks to the ruins from bombs and bullets.

The hand-steered forklift, also known as a pallet jack, crashed through the roof of a makeshift construction shed on the ground level of a secured area within the building at 130 Liberty Street near ground zero, officials said.

Some continued to work for the Central Pacific to upgrade the hasty often makeshift construction, such as replacing the long but rickety wooden trestle at Secret Town Gap (Mile 62.5/Kilometer 100.5) with a fill, and later to work on maintaining the line.

One of these malls is Staklenac ("Glass house" in Serbian) – a hideous glass makeshift construction built for temporary use, 27 years ago.

The makeshift constructions of the market and the ephemeral nature of the produce sold there are constantly evoked in surprising ways.

Many of them are makeshift constructions, plastic sheets covered in clothing, barely large enough to accommodate an adult standing upright.

It gave him the enduring sense that what we perceive as a stable, ordered world is in truth a fragile, improvised construction of convenient fictions around which we cobble together a makeshift sense of our own identity.

Summer temperatures upward of 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) take a heavy toll on the estimated 50,000 people living in informal settlements (or "slums") in and around Bhuj, where makeshift housing construction offers little shelter, and can sometimes exacerbate the problem.

In the final multivariate model for household-related features (Table 5), associations with CHIKV seropositivity were observed for a low household asset index (OR 1·65; 95% CI 1·21 2·25) and for makeshift housing construction (OR 3·08; 95% CI 1·09 8·65).