Sentence examples for makeshift figures from inspiring English sources

I tire of all the makeshift figures and props which reappear in their videos, the pig-headed androgynes in wedding dresses, the spacemen in duct-tubing costumes wielding trombone-cum-orthopaedic crutch things, the cabbages and rubber gloves, the too-much-already of it all.

While he's being interviewed by detectives Maynard Gilbough and Thomas Papania, he cuts out five makeshift figures from his six-pack of Lone Star beer, and places them in front of his interrogators.

In the wild lands outside the Eyrie, Arya rejected the possibility of a different kind of life offered by Brienne and then left her own makeshift father figure dying, refusing him the gift of her mercy.

Paul, for example, may only be a makeshift father figure, but under his influence Joni begins to stand up for herself against the brittle Nic, and Laser is inspired to drop an unsuitable friend — something that his mothers have long been urging him to do, without success.

And Wallace's makeshift apparatus of Figure 1 imposes further limiting factors.

In July 2011, about 4 months later, we finally resumed outpatient practice at a makeshift clinic (supplementary figure S5).

As the parental figures of this makeshift family, Bronagh and Patrick are intermittently hit by their consciences.

One day Mario Sepúlveda, one of the group's most extroverted figures, donned a makeshift blonde wig and impersonated the millionaire philanthropist Leonardo Farkas offering to give the miners jobs, Mr. Reygadas said.

"We will build makeshift camps".

We build makeshift tents with banana leaves and tarpaulin, and we give medical treatment.

Over 200,000 people are now staying in more than 1,400 relief camps, consisting primarily of Government schools, buildings and makeshift tented settlements, according to preliminary figures released by the National Disaster Management Authority.