Sentence examples for makeshift rods from inspiring English sources

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They fished with makeshift rods.

Behind him, construction workers on their day off fished with makeshift rods and reels in a roadside swamp, while an egret rustled the tall reeds.

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The book, "Under the Eye of the Clock," was struck letter by letter via the makeshift "unicorn rod" strapped to his forehead — a frenzy of creativity, stabbing down at each key as Mr. Nolan's mother, Bernadette, clasped his heaving head through every syllable and notion.

The police said they could find no other explanation for the apparent rage that gripped the tenant as she carried out the sustained attack against the marshal, escalating the violence using makeshift weapons -- the aluminum rod and the liquid, possibly paint thinner -- that were available in the hallway because it is under renovation.

It is clear that Weyl regarded the use of clocks and rigid rods as an undesirable makeshift within the context of the special and general theory.

The few tents in the central grassy park area have swelled to a city of makeshift shelters made out of concrete reinforcing rod posts and stretched tarpaulin.

That first group hunkered down for the winter in an abandoned cabin, built a makeshift radio from a car battery and stolen fishing rods and began planning their own rescue and another assault on Norsk Hydro.

Since that was knocked out in the earthquake, and diesel generators later failed — possibly because of the tsunami — the operators have used a makeshift system for keeping cool water on the fuel rods.

That report, which documented extensive abuse and even death in CIA custody, did not indicate that the agency prepared any makeshift electric chairs, nor that interrogators beat detainees with metal rods.

Under a conformal transformation the change of the components of the symmetric linear connection is given by (14), that is, The use of clocks and rigid rods is, within the context of either theory, an undesirable makeshift for two reasons.

Not the casual ones "wearing regular clothes" but the "fancy Spandex types" that whiz past on the narrow concrete path, upsetting rods and boom boxes, beer bellies and cutting boards, buckets, coolers, folding chairs, umbrellas and makeshift tents held up by bungee cords.

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