Sentence examples for makeshift dwelling from inspiring English sources

"The people here aren't leaving," he said next to a makeshift dwelling covered in black plastic.

The oldest, Henry, earns money doing odd jobs while his siblings furnish their makeshift dwelling with finds from the local dump.

As the night watchman and his family, who occupy a makeshift dwelling on the roof, prepare for the evening's festivities, a congregation of male ghosts flits about the building, sunning themselves in a "mood of summery exhibitionism".

Fadila Ahmed Mahamat, a great-grandmother whose legs are withered stalks, sat amid the charred ruins of her home, digging holes in the sand with bare, gnarled hands to construct the frame of a makeshift dwelling out of branches from a pen that had been used to keep sheep.

The potty on the roof of the makeshift dwelling unit shown in photo 4 had a dual utility; it was officially and conveniently a waste management accessory for the 'baby' even when there was no baby in the household.

Gone as well were their makeshift dwellings.

Below, makeshift dwellings assembled from blue tarp and wooden sticks stood alongside shiny modern tents.

But many of the rest have moved to makeshift dwellings in slums without sanitation.

Many now live in squalor in makeshift dwellings north of Baghdad.

The shelters commemorate the 40 years Jews spent in makeshift dwellings while headed toward the Holy Land.

Those not lucky enough to be warehoused in these factory tenements found roofs over their heads in makeshift dwellings fabricated with corrugated iron, flattened tins and wooden planks.