Sentence examples for makeshift groups from inspiring English sources

More than 16,000 people are estimated to live in 497 informal settlements in France, including shanty areas and makeshift groups of tents.

The gangs and makeshift groups that move through them operate as microcosms of American society: mutually suspicious, on the make, thrown together by chance in fables of trust and suspicion.

In other places in Africa, where poaching has caused a breakdown of family structure and the merging of unrelated females into makeshift groups, the kind of behavior that we have witnessed from this family toward Paula might make sense in the confusion of rebuilding family ties.

Fellow studio musicians included a Welsh-born viola player, John Cale, with whom Reed soon performed in such makeshift groups as the Warlocks and the Primitives.

Instead nearly 100 people spilled out over the square, huddling together in makeshift groups, teaching each other how to throw curveballs and where to catch the best Pokemon around the city.

So far, the makeshift group has announced just four concerts: Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and New York, all at the end of January.

Determined to block the auction, the makeshift group of amateur sleuths presented its case to Members of Parliament.

To punctuate McEnroe's angst-ridden debut as captain, he watched the Spaniards sweep his makeshift group in the semifinals last summer.

Cameron pulled his Tory MEPs out of the integrationist European People's Party grouping (EPP) in the European parliament to reinforce his eurosceptic credentials as Conservative leader, in favour of new makeshift group with far-right, anti-EU MEPs from Poland, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Hungary and Belgium.

In 2011, Hinrikus and Käärmann turned their little makeshift group into a company.

Whether it would be solar panels on a kindergarten building, a fence that would protect the school and the children, a well, a tilapia pond, a vegetable garden to provide food for a cafeteria, this makeshift group of new friends eventually agreed with my dream: they were going to make it all possible.