Sentence examples for makeshift household from inspiring English sources

In the aftermath, two siblings — orphaned years earlier and taken in by their mother's family — see their bonds, and those of their makeshift household, tested and frayed.

Whaley flees with her, half dead in the bottom of his boat, to fictional Yaupon Island, where they establish a makeshift household and, eventually, a family.

The book is full of makeshift households that take the place of traditional families; it is also full of the wistfulness of characters who grew up without the conventional mom-and-pop underpinnings of childhood.

Concerning household-related variables, living in a household of three to four members, as well as living in makeshift house and a socioeconomic status index below the median threshold were positively associated with DENV seropositivity (Table 4).

We'd formed a little makeshift family.

Their own makeshift jails house captured soldiers.

The Rev. Gerald Bataille, the children's full-time guardian since January, organized a makeshift school and a household staff.

Data were also collected on the housing environment, relating to the type of house construction (Makeshift, adobe and stone, concrete) the number of household residents, sanitary conditions and household facilities such as electricity and drinking water source.

In particular, makeshift housing and a low household asset index were associated with higher CHIKV seroprevalence rates.

I loved the inventive guy who rigs up a household boiler as a makeshift still, so that, when he turns on the kitchen faucet, out comes neat hooch — a touch on the cloudy side, for a purist, what with all the rust in the pipes, but enough to get the party under way.

Times reporters saw the bodies of young people who appeared to be in their early teens, and noted that the ice "was melting as household fans played over the makeshift morgue".