Sentence examples for makeshift for from inspiring English sources

The makeshift – for the purposes of this World Cup – fly-half gave way to Trinh-Duc, and while he was away New Zealand scored from a lineout, Jerome Kaino winning at the tail and dropping the ball back inside, on a pre-planned move, to the prop Tony Woodcock.

Under a conformal transformation the change of the components of the symmetric linear connection is given by (14), that is, The use of clocks and rigid rods is, within the context of either theory, an undesirable makeshift for two reasons.

Only by accident did I discover that a makeshift Stevenson-for-president office was just a streetcar ride away.

Add a tarpaulin or two for all sorts of purposes and some dish cloths/hand towels or similar for quick makeshift curtains for the car windows if you have to sleep in it overnight.

The room where we filmed is currently a makeshift bedroom for Jordan; he put away his mattress to make space for the band to play that night.

One camp had 10 makeshift toilets for 4,300 people.

Another group had set up a makeshift memorial for the man they had planned to honor.

He thinks the bear was probably using its makeshift combs for comfort, rather than vanity.

"The dad is shook," Mr. Blacks said, standing by a makeshift memorial for Mr. Gray.

Others were disassembled by rebels, who used their tubes as makeshift launchers for other looted ordnance.

Some islanders have set up their own makeshift camps for migrants.