Sentence examples for makeshift residence from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chou taps into something profound about the dream life of a nation with this moment, as he does with shots of a cavernous former theater that became a makeshift residence (and that partly recalls the nook-filled theater in Tsai Ming-liang's "Goodbye, Dragon Inn").

Clotheslines are strung across the middle of the road, and a few protesters have created flower gardens outside their makeshift residences.

He set up a makeshift gym at his residence in Santa Monica.

Outside the president's sprawling official residence, a makeshift shantytown sprang up last week, with hundreds of young men from the Young Patriot movement standing a rowdy vigil to protect the man they say can bring good fortune to a generation of Ivoirian youths.

Just a five-minute walk from where the Henry Girls grew up and a three-minute walk from Joe and Kathleen McLaughlin's current residence, the makeshift studio was furnished with the comforts of home.

A makeshift counter-monument has taken up residence in front of the eagle: a row of small handmade displays that include photographs, personal items such as shoes and clothing, and printouts with private stories and public denouncements of the monument.

He once had flamenco dancers perform on a makeshift stage set atop the fountain of the residence's tiled patio to maintain his reputation as a good host and keep his dinner guests amused.

The front hall closet is makeshift.

Clothes draped over a nearby chain fence and makeshift entrances suggest that homeless people have taken up residence in some of the containers.

Driver was ultimately killed by police in August as he was leaving his residence in a taxi armed with a makeshift bomb near London, Ontario.

From the slums of Nairobi to the leafy residences of the political elite and the makeshift camps where many of those displaced by the post-election fighting remain, Kenyans stopped to listen to a short statement from The Hague, in the Netherlands.