Sentence examples for makeshift kiosks from inspiring English sources
BECOME A LATE ADOPTER Less than a week after the iPhone 5 was released on Sept. 21, 2012, barely used phones turned up for sale at makeshift kiosks at flea markets in Oakland, Calif., known hot spots for peddling stolen merchandise, according to the police.
Through Dec. 21 Thomas Hirschhorn is the 45-year-old Swiss-born installationist philosopher whose endearingly thorny makeshift kiosks, pavilions, shrines, libraries and other fly-by-night, jury-rigged constructions of scrap wood, cardboard and duct-tape on the streets of Paris and elsewhere have made him one of the most intriguing artists of the moment.
Many Somalis own spaza shops - makeshift kiosks usually run from private houses or a shack of corrugated iron.
The city's airport also reopened partially on April 3 with a makeshift kiosk performing security and check-in operations.
There are makeshift neighborhood kiosks that sell noodles, rice and cellphone cards.
Only a handful ventured over to the makeshift tourist kiosk at the ferry terminal.
Around the corner, Jora Kosakian, 39, a laid-off Soviet-educated engineer, said he was forced to operate a makeshift newspaper kiosk for the last three years to support his family.
Squads of Kalashnikov-bearing Russian soldiers move past the kiosks and makeshift shops but do not linger long.
Around three-quarters of the money spent in Soweto is captured by informal traders, who sell from spazas (kiosks) and makeshift stalls, says G.G. Alcock, the boss of Minanawe, an agency that has built a big database of such outlets.
Mr. Fowle said the center had an undeserved bad reputation, that its original design, by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, worked well until it became corrupted by pop-up food-service kiosks and other makeshift construction.
A5 Zimbabwe Reacts to Unrest Zimbabwe's authoritarian government, facing rising unrest over a collapsing economy, has apparently adopted a scorched-earth policy toward potential enemies, detaining thousands of people, burning homes and street kiosks and routing large numbers of people from makeshift homes in major cities.
