Sentence examples for makeshift place from inspiring English sources

It is a Britain before brands and labels colonised the consciousness of the young, a more makeshift place of stained concrete walls and rubble-strewn wastegrounds where young people created their own style by mixing and matching: flared trousers and Dr Marten boots.

Some of them – like the Ilford one – are simply old leisure centres converted into a makeshift place of worship, with various deities placed next to each other to allow people from different denominations to pray without having to drive out of the city.

Hidden Islam is an evocative, multi-layered book that contrasts the reverent peacefulness of these makeshift places with the often tense politics that surrounds them.

— ANDY NEWMAN BAY HEAD, N.J. — Just after daybreak, under a pink-hued sky, Shelly Coleman and her husband, Terrance, bundled up in winter jackets, left their sodden, water-damaged home and headed to the Bay Head firehouse, where a makeshift polling place had sprouted – literally overnight.

Now town officials are consumed with the evacuation of Futaba's 6,900 residents, shepherding a group of about 1,300 people from one makeshift sleeping place to the next.

Competing with a hockey game — the Ottawa Senators up against the St Louis Blues — the Americans crammed into a corner of the bar, around a makeshift voting place adorned with American flags.

Some fans booed the delay and others were amused by the sight of the Islanders warming up before a makeshift goal placed between the circles' hash marks while the goal area was set off by barricades.

One sure thing is "Berlinmuren," the Norwegian artist Lars Laumann's excellent film of a Swedish woman's long romance with the wall, on view in a makeshift hut placed on the site.

Rihanna filmed the music video for "Shut Up and Drive" in a makeshift junkyard placed in Prague, the Czech Republic.

Makeshift polling places were also set up, but some voters still faced chaotic scenes and long lines.

Five decades after the events of April 21 , 1958 a small makeshift marker placed in the sandy soil was the only sign of the loss of United Airlines Flight 736, but preliminary efforts were in motion to encourage public officials to build a permanent memorial to those who died.